{"product_id":"exemplarity-and-mediocrity-9780804758901","title":"Exemplarity and Mediocrity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExemplarity and Mediocrity\u003c\/i\u003e explores the strategies modern German literature employed to increasingly attune itself to quotidian life—common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events—while at the same time avoiding all notions of mediocre quality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An exceptionally fine inquiry into the origin and function of the category of the 'unexceptional' in modern German literature, Fleming's study grants insight into those figures and forces that have helped produce the images of averageness against which 'great' characters and events as well as 'minor' movements and literatures have been measured.\" -- Peter Fenves * Northwestern University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments\tvii  Introduction\t1  The Prose of the World, 1  The Werther Complex, 000  Literature, Exemplarity, and Mediocrity, 000  From Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism, 000  Chapter One: Exemplarity and Mediocrity\t000  Exorbitant or Not at All, 000  Living the \"Mean\" Life (Aristotle), 000  Ruling Mediocrity (Horace), 000  Exemplary Originality (Kant), 000  Exemplary Averageness (Kant \/ Schiller), 000  Higher Criticism: Appreciating Mediocrity (Kleist), 000  Chapter Two. Common Heroes: The Making of an Exemplary Audience   \t000  (Lessing on Bourgeois Tragedy)  How to Avoid A Tragic Fate, 000  Exceptional vs. Completely Common Characters, 000  Compassion: The Common, Exemplary Passion, 000  Art without Admiration, or, the End of the Age of Great Men, 000  How Many Tears should the \"Best Human\" shed?, 000  \"Even mediocre artists can be successful,\" 000  \"The applause is already very suspicious to me,\" 000  Chapter Three. Mediocre Artists: The Aesthetic Education of the Dilettante  (Goethe and Schiller)\t000  The Stamp of the Dilettante, 000  The Rise of Dilettantism, 000  Art's Invitation, 000  Goethe, the Dilettante, 000  The Problem of Popularity, 000  School of the Dilettantes, 000  Wilhelm Dilettante, or, The Art of Renunciation, 000  The Eternal Return of the Dilettante, 000  Chapter Four. Average Life: The Art of Prosaic Reality (Grillparzer and Stifter)  \t000  The Museum of Spirit, 000  Grillparzer's Lives of the Non-Famous, 000  The Dissonant Whole, 000  The Sublimity of Regularity (Stifter), 000  Perceptions of the Unperceivable, 000  The Statistical Law, 000  How Gentle is the Law?, 000  The Art of Prosaic Reality, 000  Conclusion\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405573562711,"sku":"9780804758901","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804758901.jpg?v=1730492883","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exemplarity-and-mediocrity-9780804758901","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}