Kenneth S Calhoon

Affecting Grace

Theatre, Subject, and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist

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Produktbeschreibung

Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645998
• ISBN-10: 1442645997
• Artikelnr.: 37051799

Autorenporträt

Kenneth S. Calhoon is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One: Mercy and the Spirit of Commerce: Shylock’s Shadow in the Age
of Disinterest
Chapter Two: Judging Adam: Theater and the Fall into History
Chapter Three: The Virtue of Things: Meissen Porcelain and the Classical
Object
Chapter Four: Of Praise and Poison in Hamlet and Miss Sara Sampson
Chapter Five: Scenic Fantasies: Bellotto in Dresden—Goethe in Strasbourg
Chapter Six: Sovereign Innocence: Schiller’s “Walk” and the Naïve Spectator
Chapter Seven: Caught in the Act: The Comedic Miscarriage of Kleist’s
Broken Jug
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index