Lichtenberg Satirist Physicist Science Satire Wit ESSAY Criticism Sturm Drang

Description: Science, Satire and Wit: The Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Studies in Modern German Literature, Vol. 41by Ralph W. BuechlerPublished by Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1990. Good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, same notes & notations to text. 8vo, 303 pages. This book attempts a critical assessment of the eighteenth-century German essay utilizing the journal essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg as a paradigm. It places a socio-historical and genre-theoretical analysis of the eighteenth-century German essay across a close reading of Lichtenberg's essays. The study demonstrates that Lichtenberg's essays operate as critical communication for purposes of instruction and satire. What is more, such critical communication alternates with a critique of enlightenment itself. Finally, the methodology of Lichtenberg's essays is shown to be instrumental in developing imaginative and freely-associative literary strategies.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. Loc: E7StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackLichtenberg Satirist Physicist Science Satire Wit ESSAY Criticism Sturm Drang Science, Satire and Wit: The Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Studies in Modern German Literature, Vol. 41by Ralph W. BuechlerPublished by Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1990. Good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, same notes & notations to text. 8vo, 303 pages. This book attempts a critical assessment of the eighteenth-century German essay utilizing the journal essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg as a paradigm. It places a socio-historical and genre-theoretical analysis of the eighteenth-century German essay across a close reading of Lichtenberg's essays. The study demonstrates that Lichtenberg's essays operate as critical communication for purposes of instruction and satire. What is more, such critical communication alternates with a critique of enlightenment itself. Finally, the methodology of Lichtenberg's essays is shown to be instrumental in developing imaginative and freely-associative literary strategies.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. Loc: E7

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