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    Origin of the German Trauerspiel (2019)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press
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    b3kat_BV046326049
    Format: XXIII, 308 Seiten , 21 cm
    Edition: First printing
    ISBN: 9780674744240 , 0674744241
    Uniform Title: Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels
    Content: Zusammenfassung: Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else--the play of mourning. Howard Eiland's completely new English translation, the first since 1977, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin's philosophical idiom. Focusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel, precursor of the opera, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays--though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal. Benjamin's investigation of the trauerspiel includes German texts and late Renaissance European drama such as Hamlet and Calderón's Life Is a Dream. The prologue is one of his most important and difficult pieces of writing. It lays out his method of indirection and his idea of the "constellation" as a key means of grasping the world, making dynamic unities out of the myriad bits of daily life. Thoroughly annotated with a philological and historical introduction and other explanatory and supplementary material, this rigorous and elegant new translation brings fresh understanding to a cardinal work by one of the twentieth century's greatest literary critics.--(Provided by publisher.)
    Language: English
    Keywords: Deutsch ; Tragödie ; Barock ; Geschichte 1620-1800 ; Deutsch ; Tragödie ; Geschichte 1620-1690 ; Darstellende Kunst ; Ästhetik ; Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 ; Quelle
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Author information: Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
    Author information: Eiland, Howard
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    Origin of the German trauerspiel / (2019)
    Cambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,
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    edocfu_9961151256902883
    Format: 1 online resource (310 pages)
    ISBN: 0-674-91636-0 , 0-674-91635-2
    Uniform Title: Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels.
    Content: Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity, bespeaking a haunted, bedeviled world of mutability and eternal transience. In this rigorous elegant translation, history as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal.
    Note: Includes index. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Translator's Introduction -- , I. Epistemo-Critical Foreword -- , II. Trauerspiel and Tragedy -- , III. Allegory and Trauerspiel -- , Appendix A: "Trauerspiel and Tragedy" (1916) -- , Appendix B: "The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy" (1916) -- , Guide to Names -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-74424-1
    Additional Edition: Translation of: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674916357
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