UID:
almafu_9961151256902883
Format:
1 online resource (310 pages)
ISBN:
0-674-91636-0
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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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Abbreviations --
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Translator's Introduction --
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I. Epistemo-Critical Foreword --
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II. Trauerspiel and Tragedy --
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III. Allegory and Trauerspiel --
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Appendix A: "Trauerspiel and Tragedy" (1916) --
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Appendix B: "The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy" (1916) --
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Guide to Names --
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Acknowledgments --
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Index
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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
