{"product_id":"benjamins-library-modernity-nation-and-the-baroque-paperback-softback-9780801476594","title":"Benjamin's Library; Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801476594","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBenjamin's Library\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModernity, Nation, and the Baroque\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJane O. Newman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801476594\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e262 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewman's study offers an astonishingly thorough reconstruction of the \u003ci\u003eTrauerspiel\u003c\/i\u003e book's enabling intellectual conditions, paying special attention to the debates in art history, literary history, and theology since the nineteenth century and around World War I.... Newman's provocative study offers an image of Benjamin that runs counter to the accepted version of the writer as the quintessentially cosmopolitan, border-crossing intellectual... [and] sets news standards for a return to archival research, historical reconstruction, and philological rigor in Benjamin studies.\u003c\/p\u003e (Monatshefte)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin's day.\u003c\/b\u003e Taking into account the literary and cultural contexts of Benjamin's work, Newman recovers Benjamin's relationship to the ideologically loaded readings of the literature and political theory of the seventeenth-century Baroque that abounded in Germany during the political and economic crises of the Weimar years. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo date, the significance of the Baroque for Origin of the German Tragic Drama has been glossed over by students of Benjamin, most of whom have neither read it in this context nor engaged with the often incongruous debates about the period that filled both academic and popular texts in the years leading up to and following World War I. Armed with extraordinary historical, bibliographical, philological, and orthographic research, Newman shows the extent to which Benjamin participated in these debates by reconstructing the literal and figurative history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books that Benjamin analyzes and the literary, art historical and art theoretical, and political theological discussions of the Baroque with which he was familiar. In so doing, she challenges the exceptionalist, even hagiographic, approaches that have become common in Benjamin studies. The result is a deeply learned book that will infuse much-needed life into the study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Textual Note\u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction: Benjamin's Baroque: A Lost Object?1. Inventing the Baroque: A Critical History of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Debates\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Renaissance of the German Baroque in the \"Epistemo-Critical Prologue\"\u003cbr\u003e Locating Baroque Style\u003cbr\u003e Origin and the \"Heroic\" Age of the German Literary Baroque\u003c\/i\u003e2. The Plays Are the Thing: Textual Politics and the German Drama\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of the Silesian School: Nationalism and the Baroque Tragic Drama\u003cbr\u003e Collecting the Baroque: Editing the German Dramatic Tradition\u003cbr\u003e The Task of the Translator: Shakespeare as German Tragic Drama\u003c\/i\u003e3. Melancholy Germans: War Theology, Allegory, and the Lutheran Baroque\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBenjamin's Hamlet in the Crosshairs of War Theology\u003cbr\u003e Reforming the Baroque: Benjamin on Warburg on Luther\u003cbr\u003e Allegory, Emblems, and Gryphius's \u003c\/i\u003eCatharina von GeorgienConclusion: Baroque Legacies: National Socialism's Benjamin\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744445296920,"sku":"9780801476594","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/benjamins-library-modernity-nation-and-the-baroque-paperback-softback-9780801476594","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}