Middling romanticism: reading in the gaps, from Kant to Ashbery

Abstract

"Examines various forms of the middle (such as the medium, moderation, and mediocrity) that re-negotiated in the writings of British and German romanticism, along with a consideration of how our own relationship to romanticism is influenced by its medial thinking."

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Parenthyrsos: On the Medium of the Sublime -- 2. The Medium Eats the Message: Mediatization and Force in Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" -- 3. Radically Neutral: Hegel, Haiti, Kleist -- 4. Love Language: Plato, Shelley, Schlegel -- 5. This Is (Not) a Joint: Two Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin -- 6. Lyric Meditude: On Hölderlin and Ashbery -- After Words.