The Origin of German Tragic Drama
Benjamin's most sustained and original work, considered one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.\ Cited by Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin’s study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, “mourning play”) is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwrights as well as the plays of Shakespeare and Calderón and the...
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Benjamin's most sustained and original work, considered one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.
IntroductionEpistemo-Critical PrologueTrauerspiel and TragedyAllegory and Trauerspiel
\ Sunday Times“Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of [the twentieth] century.”\ \ \ \ \ Susan Sontag“He drew, from the obscure disdained German baroque, elements of the modern sensibility: the taste for allegory, surrealist shock effects, discontinuous utterance, a sense of historical catastrophe.”\ \
