[in recent times has come, as background music, the expression expanded literature to define and delineate a certain way of making literature, it has even used the name "expanded" in courses, conferences, etc. Surprisingly, however, how this name was at the root of the romantic.]
Romantics, or part of the romantic, hidden intention is none other than introduce the idea of \u200b\u200bpoetry characters of prose. That is, achieving the expressive freedom of prose in poetry, without losing its essential nature . The novel becomes, for the romantic, the spiritual ideal for poetry. Novalis wrote, "A novel should not be written as a continuum, a building should be articulated in each of their periods. Each piece must be something cut, limited, namely, an all their own. " Every bit is the perfect image of that fragmentation that the Romantic poet dreams of injection.
However, in some places as in the letter Novalis, the January 12, 1798, addressed to AW Schlegel (ie other ) found more accurately expressed the intention of these poets in their desire to merge through what the poet called expanded poetry. Thus says in the letter:
If poetry aims to expand, it can only do limited, shrinking, leaving as it run its flammable materials and curdling. Cobra looks so prosaic, and its constituent parts are not in close communion, and therefore under such strict rhythmic-laws, becoming more able to represent the limited. But it's still poetry so faithful to the essential laws of nature, it becomes so to speak at an organic being whose entire structure betrays its origins in the fluid, elastic nature originally, the endlessness, their fitness for all. Only the mix of its members has no rules, while the management of themselves and their relationship to the whole remains the same. Each of the stimuli it spreads everywhere. Also aquí los miembros se mueven sólo en torno a aquello que reposa eternamente, alrededor de un todo. Cuanto más simples, más uniformes, y también más tranquilos son aquí los movimientos de las frases, cuanto más concordes sus mezclas en el todo, cuanto más suelta la conexión, cuanto más transparente e incolora la expresión, tanto más perfecta será esta poesía en oposición a la prosa decorativa, descuidada y aparentemente dependiente de los objetos. La poesía parece desistir aquí del rigor de sus exigencias, hacerse más complaciente y maleable. Pero a quien se atreva a intentar esta forma de poesía pronto se le hará patente lo difícil que es realizarla perfecta en dicha form. This poem is precisely expanded more poetic writer problem: a problem can be solved only by approximation, which properly speaking belongs to the higher poetry. There is still a huge field here, an infinite area in the proper sense. A top that poetry could be called poetry also infinite.
Novalis no longer one of the most powerful voices of this period. That prosaic appearance does not imply an abandonment of poetry, he remains true to its nature. Novalis are some of the most important pieces in this romantic idea revision of the genera , which is in the prose and the novel as spaces or lines of attraction. The ideas set out in his letter to Novalis, the Schlegel more marked, perhaps, an obsession with the fragmentary thought of Novalis. For the poet, "poetry is the prose of the arts", which wants to draw the link Novalis's prose with sound expression , with that which gives voice to the world. Why then notes that "words are the sound settings of ideas. " Ie speak in prose. Novalis links these elements with what he calls study of life , and life, catch your fleeting life everyday (I'm in the head Hegel) is the aim of romanticism. Novalis writes in another of his pieces: "Life is something like the colors, sounds and strength. The romantic studies life in the same way the painter, the musician and the mechanical study color, sound and strength. A careful study of the romantic life does so as a careful study of color, shape, sound and force make the painter, musician and mechanic. " Matter for the romantic life is. If the romantic seeks a study of life on how their actions carried out this task? Is this the land of prose? Write in a later passage: "Prose truly romantic, extremely changing , wonderful, strange twists, sudden jumps." Prose is the channel through which the romantic can get to the study of life. The prose is as close to that study of life. He continues: "In the absence ideas yet romantic and change management. Extremely simple style, but very bold, as a novel, early dramatic transitions, continuations, now talking, then speech, then story, then reflection, then image and so on. " This is the style, hybridization to the romantic spirit is put into play through a prose form and given its potential is shown as way to life. Novalis asks himself, precisely because the theory of the common life. He writes: "Theory the common life . Pronunciation and declamation cultured life common , habitual, and prose. Must be content to talk when you can not sing. " And in another moment to realize this relationship is actually prose, prose common life from the consideration of life as a novel made up of thousands of fragments. "There is more romantic than what is usually called the world and destiny. We live in a novel ( large and small ). Consideration of events around us. Counseling, prosecution and romantic treatment of human life. " We live in a novel expression is chosen by Novalis, and the novel of ordinary life is composed of fragments, large and small, to try to capture the wide variation and mutation of this life a life in the words of Novalis extremely changeable , Folded, and perhaps, in essence, inaccessible. The romance is something that changes constantly. The hero of this novel, according to Novalis, is the filter through which the author tries to draw those life events. Therefore, Novalis, the hero has a passive nature, a subject, as in Schelling, indifferent. He writes: "Nature passive novel hero. Is the body of the author of the novel. Serenity and style economy. Poetic implementation and consideration of all the events of life. " That would be the method of construction of a novel and So romantic reconstruction of reality. But, after all, how consider all life events ? This, of course, is something that haunts Novalis and perhaps left unresolved in his unfinished novel Enrique de Ofterdingen " I think-let-written as if two ways to get to the science of human history: one, painful, endless and full of detours, the path of experience, and another that is almost a jump, the road inward contemplation. Which runs through the first have to go find things inside one another in a long and tedious calculation, which runs through the second, however, has a direct view of the nature of all events and all realities, is capable to observe them in their living and multiple relationships, and to compare them with other objects like figures painted on a table . "
