Yale French Studies, Number 124 Vol. 124Walter Benjamin's Hypothetical French Trauerspiel |
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| Editor:
| Bjornstad, Hall
Ibbett, Katherine |
| Series title: | Yale French Studies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-19420-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
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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,...
More DescriptionIn 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.