Dowden / Quinn Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78204-412-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 157, 380 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dowden, Stephen D.

Quinn, Thomas P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Dowden Stephen D.:
STEPHEN D. DOWDEN is Professor of Germanic Languages and Chair of the European Cultural Studies Program at Brandeis University.