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Abstract
This article builds on a passage from Johann Georg Hamann's Fünf Hirtenbriefe das Schuldrama betreffend (1763) to argue that the discourse on the rules of dramatic composition in the Sturm und Drang is shaped by an implicitly Lutheran logic of Christian freedom. That means that rather than emphasising the transgression of established rules, Sturm und Drang writers, like Luther's free Christian, sought to replace obedience to lower-level laws with submission to a higher principle. This Lutheran reframing of the Sturm und Drang revises the conventional understanding of the Sturm und Drang writers as literary revolutionaries and brings their aesthetic programme much more closely in line with their moderate political views. Moreover, in stressing the Lutheran underpinnings of Sturm und Drang aesthetics, this article also calls into question the established view that the theological aspects of Hamann's aesthetics are without parallel in the Sturm und Drang proper. At the centre of the Lutheran reinterpretation of the Sturm und Drang in this article stand analyses of J. M. R. Lenz's Anmerkungen übers Theater, Johann Gottfried Herder's ‘Shakespear’ and Johann Wolfgang Goethe's ‘Zum Schäkespears Tag’ and Götz von Berlichingen.
本文以约翰·格奥尔格·哈曼(john Georg Hamann) 1763年所著的《文学与戏剧》(nf Hirtenbriefe das Schuldrama betreffend)中的一段话为基础,论证了《风暴与激浪》中关于戏剧创作规则的论述是由一种隐含的路德教基督教自由逻辑塑造的。这意味着,Sturm und Drang的作者,就像路德的自由基督教一样,并没有强调对既定规则的违背,而是试图用对更高原则的服从来取代对较低层次法律的服从。路德教会对《狂飙狂飙》的重新定义修正了对《狂飙狂飙》作家作为文学革命者的传统理解,并使他们的美学纲领更接近于他们温和的政治观点。此外,在强调《狂飙与狂飙》美学的路德教基础时,本文也对既定观点提出了质疑,即哈曼美学的神学方面在《狂飙与狂飙》中是没有平行的。在本文中,路德教会对《风暴与飞龙》的重新诠释的核心是对j.m.r.伦茨的《Anmerkungen bers剧院》、约翰·戈特弗里德·赫尔德的《莎士比亚》和约翰·沃尔夫冈·歌德的《Zum Schäkespears Tag》和Götz冯·伯利辛根》的分析。
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- German Life and Letters was founded in 1936 by the distinguished British Germanist L.A. Willoughby and the publisher Basil Blackwell. In its first number the journal described its aim as "engagement with German culture in its widest aspects: its history, literature, religion, music, art; with German life in general". German LIfe and Letters has continued over the decades to observe its founding principles of providing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly analysis of German culture past and present. The journal appears four times a year, and a typical number contains around eight articles of between six and eight thousand words each.