The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Benjamin, Walter:

ISBN 10: 1859848990 / ISBN 13: 9781859848999

Published by Verso, London, 1998

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256 Seiten Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Contents - Introduction / George Steiner --Epistemo-Critical Prologue --The Concept of the treatise --Knowledge and truth --Philosophical beauty --Division and dispersal in the concept --Idea as configuration --The word as idea --Ideas non-classificatory --Burdach's nominalism --Verism, syncretism, induction --Croce and the artistic genres --Origin --Monadology --Neglect and misinterpretation of baroque tragedy --'Appreciation' --Baroque and expressionism --Pro domo --Trauerspiel and Tragedy --Baroque theory of the Trauerspiel --The insignificance of the influence of Aristotle --History as the content of the Trauerspiel --Theory of sovereignty --Byzantine sources --Herodian dramas --Indecisiveness --Tyrant as martyr, martyr as tyrant --Underestimation of the martyr-drama --Christian chronicle and Trauerspiel --Immanence of baroque drama --Play and reflection --Sovereign as creature --Honour --Destruction of the historical ethos --Setting --The courtier as saint and as intriguer --The didactic intention of the Trauerspiel --Volkelt's 'Aesthetics of the Tragic' --Nietzsche's 'Birth of Tragedy' --The tragic theory of German idealism --Tragedy and legend --Kingship and tragedy --'Tragedy' old and new --Tragic death as a framework --Tragic, forensic and Platonic dialogue --Mourning and tragedy --Sturm und Drang, Classicism --Haupt- und Staatsaktion, puppet play --The intriguer as comic character --The concept of fate in the fate-drama --Natural and tragic guilt -- The stage property. ISBN 9781859848999 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Origin of German Tragic Drama
• Publisher: Verso, London
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 1859848990
• ISBN 13: 9781859848999
• Binding: gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.