Benjamin's library : modernity, nation, and the Baroque

Benjamin's library : modernity, nation, and the Baroque / Jane O. Newman.

In Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin's day. Taking into account the...

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Main Author: Newman, Jane O.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2011.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Contributions in criticism.
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter > 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter > 1892-1940 > Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > analys och tolkning.
Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels.
1500-1700
German literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Baroque literature > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Baroque literature
Criticism
German literature > Early modern
Intellectual life
Barock
Geschichtsphilosophie
Literaturtheorie
Tysk litteratur > historia > 1500-1800.
Barocken > litteraturhistoria.
Germany > Intellectual life.
Germany
Tyskland > intellektuellt liv > historia.
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Inventing the Baroque: A Critical History of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Debates
  • The Renaissance of the German Baroque in the "Epistemo-Critical Prologue"
  • Locating Baroque Style
  • Origin and the "Heroic" Age of the German Literary Baroque
  • 2. The Plays Are the Thing: Textual Politics and the German Drama
  • The Origin of the Silesian School: Nationalism and the Baroque Tragic Drama
  • Collecting the Baroque: Editing the German Dramatic Tradition
  • The Task of the Translator: Shakespeare as German Tragic Drama
  • 3. Melancholy Germans: War Theology, Allegory, and the Lutheran Baroque
  • Benjamin's Hamlet in the Crosshairs of War Theology
  • Reforming the Baroque: Benjamin on Warburg on Luther
  • Allegory, Emblems, and Gryphius's Catharina von Georgien.

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