Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought

Herausgeber: Dowden, Stephen D; Quinn, Thomas P

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9781571135858
• ISBN-10: 1571135855
• Artikelnr.: 41081454

Autorenporträt

Stephen D. Dowden, Thomas P. Quinn

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Pursuit of Unhappiness The Confinement of Tragedy:
Between Urfaust and Woyzeck Goethe's Faust as the Tragedy of Modernity
Before or Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and
the Tragedy of Entsagung Hölderlin und das Tragische Nietzsche, Büchner,
and the Blues Freud und die Tragödie The Death of Tragedy: Walter
Benjamin's Interruption of Nietzsche's Theory of Tragedy Rosenzweig's
Tragedy and the Spectacles of Strauss: The Question of German-Jewish
History Requiem for the Reich: Tragic Programming after the Fall of
Stalingrad The Strange Absence of Tragedy in Heidegger's Thought The Tragic
Dimension in Postwar German Painting Vestiges of the Tragic Atrocity and
Agency: W. G. Sebald's Traumatic Memory in the Light of Hannah Arendt's
Politics of Tragedy "Stark and Sometimes Sublime": Hannah Arendt's
Reflections on Tragedy The German Tragic: Pied Pipers, Heroes, and Saints
Afterword: Searching for a Standpoint of Redemption Notes on the
Contributors Index