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Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766)
Phillip Marshall Mitchell
其他書名
Harbinger of German Classicism
出版
Camden House
, 1995
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / German
Poetry / European / German
ISBN
1571130632
9781571130631
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aS5EqlBjLHgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Gottsched (1700-66) filled all these lacunae and gained a position of eminence from about 1720 to - in many fields - until his death, but with regard to the drama only until 1758 when he was knocked from his pedestal, so to speak, by the young G.E. Lessing in the so-called "Siebzehnter Literaturbrief" in the serial publication Briefe die neueste Literatur betreffend. Despite the fact that Gottsched retained his eminence in other fields of literary and philological endeavor, Lessing's and his friend Friedrich Nicolai's criticism was so biting and so effective that Gottsched's own star began to sink just as that of Lessing, Nicolai, and Mendelsohn rose. Because of Gottsched's rejection of Milton and Shakespeare, who, he felt, signified a return to the Baroque, a rejection which led to the controversy between "Leipzig," that is, Gottsched and his followers, and "the Swiss," that is, J.J. Bodmer, J.J. Breitinger and their followers, Gottsched's reputation partially eroded.