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Complex Pleasure - Forms of Feeling in German Literature

English · Paperback / Softback

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"Elegance and intelligence meet on virtually every page of this intriguing book. I was persuaded by the perspicacity and inventiveness of the individual chapters and even more by the cumulative effect of the readings [of Lessing, Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin]."--Ian Balfour, York University.
"Written with enticing rhetoric and in an often-delightful polemical mode, Complex Pleasure vacillates between the temptation of a straight definition, whose premises are continuously undermined, and the pressure of literary texts, which emerges behind every theoretical demonstration. Thus, the book develops in the tension of the two languages, and keeps reflecting on itself, as it reflects the aesthetic experience."--Literary Research / Recherche Litteraire

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About the author

Stanley Corngold is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form and Borrowed Lives (with Irene Giersing.)

Summary

"Complex Pleasure" deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers: Lessing, Kant, Hslderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin.

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"Written with enticing rhetoric and in an often-delightful polemical mode, Complex Pleasure vacillates between the temptation of a straight definition, whose premises are continuously undermined, and the pressure of literary texts, which emerges behind every theoretical demonstration. Thus, the book develops in the tension of the two languages, and keeps reflecting on itself, as it reflects the aesthetic experience."

Product details

Authors Stanley Corngold, Corngold Stanley
Publisher Stanford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.06.1998
 
EAN 9780804729406
ISBN 978-0-8047-2940-6
No. of pages 264
Dimensions 140 mm x 215 mm x 14 mm
Weight 308 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

Deutsch, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism

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