Search results for "Rokoko"

Feen und Rokoko? Zu Wielands Produktion der Biberacher Zeit

2005

This article is centred on the analysis of some of the early works by one of the most important German authors of 18th century, Christoph Martin Wieland. He was considered up until 1950s as a ‘rococo’ author, then an Enlightenment writer, and only recently as a classic one. In reality, Wieland avoida any precise classification, like all the great authors. In 1760s, when he returns to the town of his birth, Biberach, Wieland writes his first novel (Die Geschichte des Agathon) and the first psychological novel (Don Sylvio) in German literature and distances himself from his past as an enthusiastic pietist. Again in those years, he also wrote those words for which he was defined as a rococo wr…