Affecting Grace
Literature from Lessing to Kleist
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 2013
296 pages
978-1-4426-6415-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. Kenneth S. Calhoon examines this tension against an extensive backdrop that includes a number of canonical German authors - Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Lessing, von Kleist, and Nietzsche - as well as the advent of Meissen porcelain, the painting of Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi, and aspects of German styles of architecture.
Extending from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597) to Kleist's The Broken Jug (1806), this study turns on the paradox that the German literary world had begun to embrace Shakespeare just as it was firming up the broad but pronounced anti-Baroque sensibility found pivotally in Lessing's critical and dramatic works. Through these investigations, Calhoon illuminates the deep cultural changes that fundamentally affected Germany's literary and artistic traditions.
Extending from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597) to Kleist's The Broken Jug (1806), this study turns on the paradox that the German literary world had begun to embrace Shakespeare just as it was firming up the broad but pronounced anti-Baroque sensibility found pivotally in Lessing's critical and dramatic works. Through these investigations, Calhoon illuminates the deep cultural changes that fundamentally affected Germany's literary and artistic traditions.
Reviews / Votes
'Calhoon's book offers an important contribution to Shakespeare scholarship within German studies that nicely complements previous publications in this area...A rich study of eighteenth-century theatre and its influence on litterature and aesthetics.' - Olivia Landry (German Studies Review, vol 37:02:2014)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
File size
2,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-6415-9 (9781442664159)
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Kenneth S. Calhoon
Affecting Grace
Theatre, Subject, and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist
Book
04/2013
University of Toronto Press
€74.00
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Person
Kenneth S. Calhoon is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
Content
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 NaIve Spectator
Chapter Seven: Caught in the Act: The Comedic Miscarriage of Kleist's Broken Jug
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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 NaIve Spectator
Chapter Seven: Caught in the Act: The Comedic Miscarriage of Kleist's Broken Jug
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
