Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon : antiquity, enlightenment, and the 'limits' of painting and poetry / Avi Lifschitz and Michael Squire.
2017
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Title
Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon : antiquity, enlightenment, and the 'limits' of painting and poetry / Avi Lifschitz and Michael Squire.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191840562 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
N64
Dewey Decimal Classification
111.85
Summary
Ever since its publication in 1766, Lessing's 'Laocoon' 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.
Note
Ever since its publication in 1766, Lessing's 'Laocoon' 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, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 18, 2017).
Series
Classical presences.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9780198802228
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