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" Tragedy and the tragic in German literature, art, and thought / "
edited by Stephen D. Dowden and Thomas P. Quinn
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BL
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645317
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Tragedy and the tragic in German literature, art, and thought /\ edited by Stephen D. Dowden and Thomas P. Quinn
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| Series Statement
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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viii, 370 pages ;; 24 cm
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9781571135858
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: 1571135855
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: the pursuit of unhappiness / Stephen D. Dowden -- The confinement of tragedy: between Urfaust and Woyzeck / Helmut Walser Smith -- Goethe's Faust as the tragedy of modernity / Joseph P. Lawrence -- Before or beyond the pleasure principle: Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and the tragedy of Entsagung / Thomas P. Quinn -- Hölderlin und das Tragische / Bruno Pieger -- Nietzsche, Büchner, and the blues / Stephen D. Dowden -- Freud und die Tragödie / Wolfram Ette -- The death of tragedy: Walter Benjamin's interruption of Nietzsche's theory of tragedy / James McFarland -- Rosenzweig's tragedy and the spectacles of Strauss: the question of German-Jewish history / Jeffrey A. Bernstein -- Requiem for the Reich: tragic programming after the fall of Stalingrad / Karen Painter -- The strange absence of tragedy in Heidegger's thought / Karsten Harries -- The tragic dimension in postwar German painting / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei -- Vestiges of the tragic / Mark W. Roche -- Atrocity and agency: W.G. Sebald's traumatic memory in the light of Hannah Arendt's politics of tragedy / Robert Pirro -- "Stark and sometimes sublime": Hannah Arendt's reflections on tragedy / Barbara Hahn -- The German tragic: Pied Pipers, heroes, and saints / Felicitas Hoppe -- Afterword: searching for a standpoint of redemption / Thomas P. Quinn
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"The many catastrophes of German history have often been described as tragic. Consequently, German literature, music, philosophy, painting, and even architecture are rich in tragic connotations. Yet exactly what "tragedy" and "the tragic" may mean requires clarification. The poet creates a certain artful shape and trajectory for raw experience by "putting it into words"; but does putting such experience into words (or paintings or music or any other form) betray suffering by turning it into mere art? Or is it art that first turns mere suffering into tragic experience by revealing and clarifying its deepest dimension? What are we talking about, exactly, when we talk about tragic experience and tragic art, especially in an age in which, according to Hannah Arendt, evil has become banal? Does banality muffle or even annul the tragic? Does tragedy take suffering and transform it into beauty, as Schiller thought? Is it in the interest of truth for suffering to be "beautiful"? Is it possible that poetry, music, and art are important because they in fact create the meaning of suffering? Or is suffering only suffering and not accessible to meaning, tragic or otherwise? This book comprises essays that 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."--Publisher's description
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German literature-- History and criticism
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Tragic, The, in literature
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Art, German-- Themes, motives
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Tragic, The, in art
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Germany, Intellectual life
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| Dewey Classification
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830.9/162
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NX180.T74T73 2014
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Dowden, Stephen D.
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Quinn, Thomas P.,1949-
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