Benjamin's Library : : Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque / / Jane O. Newman.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Textual Note
- Introduction: Benjamin's Baroque: A Lost Object?
- 1. Inventing the Baroque: A Critical History of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Debates
- 2. The Plays Are the Thing: Textual Politics and the German Drama
- 3. Melancholy Germans: War Theology, Allegory, and the Lutheran Baroque
- Conclusion: Baroque Legacies: National Socialism's Benjamin
- Bibliography
- Index