عنوان

Walter Benjamin's hypothetical French Trauerspiel /

(Number (ISBN

030019420X

(Number (ISBN

9780300194203

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Title Proper

Walter Benjamin's hypothetical French Trauerspiel /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

[Hall Bjornstad and Katherine Ibbett, special editors]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

173 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Yale French studies ;

Volume Designation

no. 124

ISSN of Series

0044-0078 ;

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

Editors' preface: Calling on the Grand Siècle with Walter Benjamin -- The pleasures of hypothesis: Benjamin and the provisional French Trauerspiel -- "Giving voice to the feeling of his age": Benjamn, Pascal,and the Trauerspiel of the king without diversion -- Material fatality: props and the baroque drama of chance -- The crooked crown: reading Le Cid after la Mariane -- Melancholy Racine: Benjamin's Trauerspiel and literary Jews -- Noise, meaning, and music in the Racinian Trauerspiel -- Actor, act, and action in Benjamin's French baroque -- Classicism and the creaturely: Pierre Corneille's Polyeucte -- The dramaturgy of sovereignty and the performance of mourning: the case of Corneille's Horace -- La foi traités: Baroque history, international law, and the politics of reading in Corneille's Rodogune -- Afterword: Re-animating the Gegenstück, or the survival of the French Trauerspiel in the German Baroque

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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940

French drama (Tragedy)

French drama-- 17th century

German drama (Tragedy)

Bjørnstad, Hall

Ibbett, Katherine

Date of Transaction

20131217090405.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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