On Textual Understanding and Other Essays (Theory & History of Literature)

by Peter Szondi

English, German (translation)

245 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 1986

About the author

Peter Szondi was Professor of Comparative Literature at the Free University in Berlin. He is the author of groundbreaking works on the theory of drama, on literary hermeneutics, on Hölderlin, and on Celan.

Reviews

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the back to back chapters on Schlegel and Schleiermacher were hard for me to fully grasp at first and felt like a slog to get through and i was irritated in the end because it didn’t seem that useful (though the latter provided a lot more value to me than the first) but that’s my fault for not having at least a preliminary understanding of some of the concepts before approaching this one, otherwise though it was dense but rewarding and i would say worth coming back to for sure