Theory as Practice

<div> <p><i>Theory as Practice</i> was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p> <p>In light of recent dramatic revisions in criticism of European-particularly German-Romanticism this anthology brings together key texts of the movement especially those written in the last quarter of the eighteenth century by a small influential circle centered at Jena.</p> <p>In their introductory essays the editors locate writings by Fichte Schelling Novalis August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich Schlegel among others in this context. The selections include extensive excerpts from the correspondence of the Jena Romantics their commentaries on each other's work their most pertinent essays fragments and dialogues as well as diary entries and reviews. These works together with the editors' articulation and elaboration of their significance provide a new perspective on the provenance of postmodern thought and literary theory.</p> <p>Jochen Schulte-Sasse is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota and coeditor (with Wlad Godzich) of the Theory and History of Literature series at the University of Minnesota Press. Haynes Horne (University of Alabama) Andreas Michel (Indiana University) Assenka Oksiloff (New York University) Elizabeth Mittman (Michigan State University) Lisa C. Roetzel (University of Rochester) and Mary R. Strand each received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.</p> </div>