The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin
This title is Benjamin's most sustained and original work. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. George Lukacs singled out "The Origin of German Tragic Drama" as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the 20th century.
He drew, from the obscure disdained German baroque, elements of the modern sensibility: the taste for allegory, surrealist shock effects, discontinuous utterance, a sense of historical catastrophe-- Susan Sontag
If the killing of Lorca was Fascism's first great crime against literature, Benjamin's death was undoubtedly the second. * The Listener *
Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century. -- George Steiner
If the killing of Lorca was Fascism's first great crime against literature, Benjamin's death was undoubtedly the second. * The Listener *
Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century. -- George Steiner
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781859844137 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859844138 |
| Title | The Origin of German Tragic Drama |
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| Series | Art And Media Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2003-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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