| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 411 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical Presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon from across the humanities / Avi Lifschitz, Michael Squire -- Laocoon today : on the conceptual infrastructure of Lessing's treatise / David E. Wellbery -- Laocoon among the gods, or, On the theological limits of Lessing's grenzen / Michael Squire -- Lessing's Laocoon as analytical instrument : the perspectives of a classical archaeologist / Luca Giuliani, translated from the German Joe O'Donnell -- Sympathy, tragedy, and the morality of sentiment in Lessing's Laocoon / Katherine Harloe -- Mendelssohn's critique of Lessing's Laocoon / Frederick Beiser -- Naturalizing the arbitrary : Lessing's Laocoon and enlightenment semiotics / Avi Lifschitz -- Temporalization? Lessing's Laocoon and the problem of narration in eighteenth-century hiatoriography / Daniel Fulda, translated from the German Steven Tester -- Criticism as poetry? : Lessing's Laocoon and the limits of critique / Élisabeth Décultot, translated from the German Steven Tester -- Suffering in art : Laocoon between Lessing and Goethe / Ritchie Robertson -- Transparency and imaginative engagement : material as medium in lessing's laocoon / Jason Gaiger -- Lessing's Laocoon and the 'as-if' of aesthetic experience / Jonas Grethlein -- Art and necessity : rethinking lessing's critical practice / Paul A. Kottman -- Image and text in Lessing's Laocoon : from friendly semiotic neighbours to articulatory twins / Jürgen Trabant -- Envoi : the twofold liminality of Lessing's Laocoon / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht |
| Summary |
Ever since its publication in 1766, Lessing's Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry has exerted an incalculable influence on western thought. This volume offers an interdisciplinary reassessment on its 250th anniversary, exploring how Lessing's debts to the Graeco-Roman past enabled him to forge a new tradition of modern aesthetics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781. Laokoon.
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| SUBJECT |
Laokoon (Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim) fast |
| Subject |
Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Aesthetics
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lifschitz, Avi, 1975- editor.
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Squire, Michael, editor
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| ISBN |
9780192522733 |
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0192522736 |
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9780191840562 |
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0191840564 |
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