The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin

The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin

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.

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	9781859848999
ISBN 10	1859848990
Title	The Origin of German Tragic Drama
Author	Walter Benjamin
Series	Art And Media Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	1998-11-17
Number of pages	256
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