| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 237 pages). |
|
data file rda |
| Series |
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought |
|
Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Inventing the Baroque: A Critical History of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Debates -- The Renaissance of the German Baroque in the "Epistemo-Critical Prologue" -- Locating Baroque Style -- Origin and the "Heroic" Age of the German Literary Baroque -- 2. The Plays Are the Thing: Textual Politics and the German Drama -- The Origin of the Silesian School: Nationalism and the Baroque Tragic Drama -- Collecting the Baroque: Editing the German Dramatic Tradition -- The Task of the Translator: Shakespeare as German Tragic Drama -- 3. Melancholy Germans: War Theology, Allegory, and the Lutheran Baroque -- Benjamin's Hamlet in the Crosshairs of War Theology -- Reforming the Baroque: Benjamin on Warburg on Luther -- Allegory, Emblems, and Gryphius's Catharina von Georgien. |
| Summary |
In Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin's day. Taking into account the literary and cultural contexts of Benjamin's work, Newman recovers Benjamin's relationship to the ideologically loaded readings of the literature and political theory of the seventeenth-century Baroque that abounded in Germany during the political and economic crises of the Weimar years. To date, the significance of the Baroque for Origin of the German Tragic Drama has been glossed over by students of Benjamin, most of whom have neither read it in this context nor engaged with the often incongruous debates about the period that filled both academic and popular texts in the years leading up to and following World War I. Armed with extraordinary historical, bibliographical, philological, and orthographic research, Newman shows the extent to which Benjamin participated in these debates by reconstructing the literal and figurative history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books that Benjamin analyzes and the literary, art historical and art theoretical, and political theological discussions of the Baroque with which he was familiar. In so doing, she challenges the exceptionalist, even hagiographic, approaches that have become common in Benjamin studies. The result is a deeply learned book that will infuse much-needed life into the study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
|
|
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Contributions in criticism.
|
|
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. (OCoLC)fst00052359
|
|
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940.
|
|
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940. Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels.
|
|
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- analys och tolkning.
|
|
Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels. (DE-588c)4299332-5
|
|
German literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
|
|
Baroque literature -- History and criticism.
|
|
Germany -- Intellectual life.
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
|
|
Baroque literature. (OCoLC)fst00827710
|
|
Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
|
|
German literature -- Early modern.
(OCoLC)fst01710974
|
|
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
|
|
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
|
|
Barock.
|
|
Geschichtsphilosophie.
|
|
Literaturtheorie.
|
|
Tysk litteratur -- historia -- 1500-1800.
|
|
Barocken -- litteraturhistoria.
|
|
Tyskland -- intellektuellt liv -- historia.
|
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
collective biographies.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Newman, Jane O. Benjamin's library. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2011 (DLC) 2011026074 |
| ISBN |
9780801460883 (electronic book) |
|
0801460883 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.7591/9780801460883 doi |
|
