Schumann's Dichterliebe and Early Romantic Poetics

This book employs Romantic poetics as well as more recent critical thought to examine Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe of 1840, one of the most enigmatic works in the Western musical repertoire. The book attempts to introduce into musicology a hermeneutic that seeks to synthesize philosophical, literary-critical, music-analytical and psycho-analytical modes of thought.