The Origin of German Tragic Drama: Series 4 (Radical Thinkers Set 04) - Softcover

Benjamin, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844673480 ISBN 13: 9781844673483

Verlag: Verso Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

2009. 8°. 256 p., softcover.

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"Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century." George Steiner"

Reseña del editor:

Cited by Lukacs as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mourning play") is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwrights as well as the plays of Shakespeare and Calderon and the engravings of Durer, Benjamin attempts to show how the historically charged forms of the Trauerspiel broke free of tragedy's mythological timelessness. From its philosophical prologue, which offers a rare account of Benjamin's early aesthetics, to its mind-wrenching meditation on allegory, The Origin of German Tragic Drama sparkles with early insights and the seeds of Benjamin's later thought.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1844673480
• ISBN 13: 9781844673483
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256