the art of the average from bourgeois tragedy to realism /
First Statement of Responsibility
Paul Fleming
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Stanford, Calif. :
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Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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vi, 226 p. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-222) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Exemplarity and mediocrity -- Common heroes : the making of an exemplary audience (Lessing on bourgeois tragedy) -- Mediocre artists : the aesthetic education of the dilettante (Goethe and Schiller) -- Average life : the art of prosaic reality (Grillparzer and Stifter)
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Aesthetics in literature
German literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism
German literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism