Ernst Cassirer's conception of culture-as-comedy
The aesthetic theory of Weimar Classicism
The diachronic Classicism of Goethe's Faust
Poetry as symbolic form
Goethe's rhyming maxims
The cultural import of Reineke Fuchs
'An artificial mode of discourse': the symbolic form of Goethe's prose
The novel in Weimar Classicism: symbolic form and symbolic pregnance
Appendix 1: what is a symbol?
Appendix 2: memory as an aesthetic phenomenon
Appendix 3: the scholarly debate on the problematic status of the literary aphorism
Appendix 4: Goethe and Schiller's conception of the aesthetic as feminine
Appendix 5: Schiller the philosopher.
Studies in Weimar classicism : writing as symbolic form by R. H. Stephenson. ISBN 9783039110858. Published by Peter Lang in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.