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Author Newman, Jane O.

Title Benjamin's library : modernity, nation, and the Baroque / Jane O. Newman.

Imprint Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 237 pages)
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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 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqK9JfMk9whq3D8rr3bBP
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.
Littérature baroque -- Histoire et critique.
Allemagne -- Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Baroque literature
Criticism
German literature -- Early modern
Intellectual life
Germany https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtCD3rcKcPDx6FHmjvrbd
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.
Biographies.
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 bk.)
0801460883 (electronic bk.)
0801476593 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780801476594 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0801461367
9780801461361
9780801476594
Standard No. 10.7591/9780801460883 doi
AU@ 000053288527
AU@ 000062357163
DEBBG BV043085840
DEBBG BV044097682
DEBSZ 421232161
GBVCP 1003687229
NZ1 14973018
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999930056005765

 
    
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