Hölderlin and the poetry of tragedy [electronic resource] : readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin / Jeremy Tambling.
2014
PT2359.H2 T36 2014eb
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Hölderlin and the poetry of tragedy [electronic resource] : readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin / Jeremy Tambling.
Author
Tambling, Jeremy.
ISBN
9781845195878
1845195876
9781782841326 electronic book
1782841326 electronic book
1845195876
9781782841326 electronic book
1782841326 electronic book
Published
Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 310 pages)
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PT2359.H2 T36 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
831/.6
Summary
Focusing on Friedrich Hölderlin's writings on Greek tragedyespecially the works of Sophocles, which he translated to Germanthis study also examines Hölderlin's own poetry, which frequently engaged with tragedy. His musings enable a consideration of the various meanings of tragedy, providing a new reading of Shakespeare, particularly Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth. The book also discusses Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, as well as the views of theorists and philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida, all of whom were influenced to varying degrees by Hölderlin. Drawing upon the insights of Hegelian philosophy and psychoanalysis, this consideration gives readers ready access to a magnificent body of poetry and to the poet as a theorist of tragedy and madness. This is essential reading for an understanding of how tragedy pervades literature and politics, and how it has been regarded and written about, from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to Walter Benjamin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Hölderlin and the poetry of pragedy.
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