{"product_id":"the-origin-of-german-tragic-drama","title":"The Origin of German Tragic Drama","description":"By Walter Benjamin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIntroduction by George Steiner\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by John Osborne\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"He drew, from the obscure disdained German baroque, elements of the modern sensibility: the taste for allegory, surrealist shock effects, discontinuous utterance, a sense of historical catastrophe.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eSusan Sontag\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first great crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eGeorge Steiner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Origin of German Tragic Drama\u003c\/em\u003e is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It 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 royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out \u003cem\u003eThe Origin of German Tragic Drama\u003c\/em\u003e as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVerso Publishers, 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 x 7.8 inches\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9781804290460\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterary Theory\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44969691349160,"sku":"9781804290460","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/The_Origin_of_German_Tragic_Drama_Walter_Benjamin_Verso.jpg?v=1694703836","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-origin-of-german-tragic-drama","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}