Affecting Grace

Literature from Lessing to Kleist

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, German, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Drama, Shakespeare
Cover of the book Affecting Grace by Kenneth C. Calhoon, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Kenneth C. Calhoon ISBN: 9781442664166
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Publication: April 9, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Kenneth C. Calhoon
ISBN: 9781442664166
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication: April 9, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Cover of the book The Northern Element in English Literature by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Essays in the History of Canadian Law by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Editing Modernity by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Empire of the North Atlantic by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Pioneer Travel in Upper Canada by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Productivity and Prosperity by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Odysseys Home by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book The Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Modernity and Responsibility by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Introduction to Psychology and Law by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism by Kenneth C. Calhoon
Cover of the book Ukraine by Kenneth C. Calhoon
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy