The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Benjamin, Walter

The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781804290460)

Author: Walter Benjamin
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The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Benjamin, Walter

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

$19.95
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Benjamin, Walter

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.

Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN-10: 1804290467
ISBN-13: 9781804290460
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d
By Walter Benjamin
By Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.

George Steiner, author of dozens of books (The Death of Tragedy, After Babel, Heidegger, In Bluebeard's Castle, My Unwritten Books, George Steiner at the New Yorker), is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University.

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