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Walter Benjamin’s Hypothetical French Trauerspiel

By Hall Bjornstad , Katherine Ibbett

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
030019420X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7023976 bytes)
Series
Yale French Studies 124
Pages
175\175
Time added
2014-05-29 19:09:03

Description

In the summer of 1927, Walter Benjamin wrote about a possible future project on what he called French Trauerspiel, or mourning drama. In this volume of Yale French Studies, an international team of leading scholars of early modern Europe takes its cue from that lapsed project to reread the seventeenth-century French tragic canon as Trauerspiel. These new readings draw attention to early modern French theater's reflections on chance and contingency, political compromise, the question of allegory, the philosophy of the provisional, the place of sound, and the status of the creaturely. - See more at: http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300194203#sthash.dqZqcefJ.dpuf

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