{"product_id":"benjamins-library-9780801476594","title":"Benjamins Library","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecovering Walter Benjamin's connection to seventeenth-century Baroque literature and political theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewman's study offers an astonishingly thorough reconstruction of the \u003ci\u003eTrauerspiel\u003c\/i\u003e book’s enabling intellectual conditions, paying special attention to the debates in art history, literary history, and theology since the nineteenth century and around World War I.... Newman’s provocative study offers an image of Benjamin that runs counter to the accepted version of the writer as the quintessentially cosmopolitan, border-crossing intellectual... [and] sets news standards for a return to archival research, historical reconstruction, and philological rigor in Benjamin studies.\u003c\/p\u003e * Monatshefte *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Textual Note\u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction: Benjamin's Baroque: A Lost Object?1. Inventing the Baroque: A Critical History of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Debates\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Renaissance of the German Baroque in the \"Epistemo-Critical Prologue\"\u003cbr\u003e Locating Baroque Style\u003cbr\u003e Origin and the \"Heroic\" Age of the German Literary Baroque\u003c\/i\u003e2. The Plays Are the Thing: Textual Politics and the German Drama\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of the Silesian School: Nationalism and the Baroque Tragic Drama\u003cbr\u003e Collecting the Baroque: Editing the German Dramatic Tradition\u003cbr\u003e The Task of the Translator: Shakespeare as German Tragic Drama\u003c\/i\u003e3. Melancholy Germans: War Theology, Allegory, and the Lutheran Baroque\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBenjamin's Hamlet in the Crosshairs of War Theology\u003cbr\u003e Reforming the Baroque: Benjamin on Warburg on Luther\u003cbr\u003e Allegory, Emblems, and Gryphius’s \u003c\/i\u003eCatharina von GeorgienConclusion: Baroque Legacies: National Socialism’s Benjamin\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405153902935,"sku":"9780801476594","price":31.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801476594.jpg?v=1730488900","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/benjamins-library-9780801476594","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}