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The Origin of German Tragic Drama

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Walter Benjamin is widely acknowledged as amongst the greatest literary critics of this century, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama is his most sustained and original work. Indeed, Georg Lukacs—one of the most trenchant opponents of Benjamin’s aesthetics—singled out this work as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.

The Origin of German Tragic Drama begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of the royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel . Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer, and the theatre of Shakespeare and Calderon. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history.

The characteristic atmosphere of the Trauerspiel was consequently ‘melancholy’. The emblems of baroque allegory point to the extinct values of a classical world that they can never attain or repeat. Their suggestive power, however, remains to haunt subsequent cultures, down to this century.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

832.051209 BEN o

Penerbit

London : Verso., 1998

Deskripsi Fisik

256 pgs.; 19,5 cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

1-85984-413-8

Klasifikasi

832.051209

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

First Published

Subjek

German Drama (Tragedy) - History and Criticism

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Walter Benjamin

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