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    Exemplarity and mediocrity the art of the average from bourgeois tragedy to realism / by Fleming, Paul, 1968-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Exemplarity and mediocrity -- Common heroes : the making of an exemplary audience (Lessing on bourgeois tragedy) -- Mediocre artists : the aesthetic education of the dilettante (Goethe and Schiller) -- Average life : the art of prosaic reality (Grillparzer and Stifter).…”
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    When fate summons : a biography of General Richard Butler, 1743-1791 / by Ward, Harry M.

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…New frontiers -- Indian agent -- Saratoga -- Monmouth and light infantry -- Stony Point -- Mutiny -- Virginia -- Yorktown -- Mutiny II -- Fort Stanwix Treaty -- Fort McIntosh Treaty -- Fort Finney Treaty -- Superintendent of Indian Affairs -- Fort Harmar treaties -- Road to hell -- Massacre -- Postscript to tragedy.…”
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    Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…-- Theory of aesthetic judgment -- The rationalist aesthetic -- The meaning of rules -- Kant's paltry polemic -- Diotima versus Dionysus -- The challenge of irrationalism -- Gadamer and the rationalist tradition -- Leibniz and the roots of aesthetic rationalism -- The grandfather's strange case -- Theory of beauty -- Analysis of sense -- The classical Trinity -- Wolff and the birth of aesthetic rationalism -- Wolff and the aesthetic tradition -- Theory of the arts -- Psychology -- Theory of beauty -- Foundations of neo-classicism -- Gottsched and the high noon of rationalism -- Herr Professor Gottsched's Peruke -- The importance of taste -- Defense of tragedy -- Theory of taste -- Poetics -- The rules -- Dr. …”
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