The origin of German tragic drama
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The origin of German tragic drama
（Radical thinkers）
Verso, 2009
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Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels
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Translation of: Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels
"This edition published first by Verso 1998. c Verso 1998. Reprinted 2003, 2009."--T.p. verso
Includes index
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Cited by Lukacs as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mourning play") is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwrights as well as the plays of Shakespeare and Calderon and the engravings of Durer, Benjamin attempts to show how the historically charged forms of the Trauerspiel broke free of tragedy's mythological timelessness. From its philosophical prologue, which offers a rare account of Benjamin's early aesthetics, to its mind-wrenching meditation on allegory, The Origin of German Tragic Drama sparkles with early insights and the seeds of Benjamin's later thought.
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