Benjamin's Library : Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque /
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...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Library,
2011.
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Table of 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.