Sympoetry. Morphologies of Global Romanticism
Abstract
This issue proposes the category of Sympoetry as a framework for rethinking Romanticism from a global and transdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on the Frühromantik notion of Sympoesie, the volume approaches Romantic lyric as a tension-filled field shaped by the paradoxical coexistence of plurality and totality, individuality and collectivity, local identity and transnational circulation. The contributions explore four major configurations of Romantic sympoetry: global poetry, total poetry, poet-ensemble, and symbiosis. Together, they investigate processes of cultural transfer, intermediality, scientific and technological imagination, literary cooperation, female authorship, ecological thought, and the symbolic role of nature across different Romantic traditions. Bringing together scholars working on German, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, South American, and Indian Romanticisms, the issue outlines a mobile and relational morphology through which the Romantic movement can be traced in its underlying unity across languages, media, and cultural spaces.
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