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Exemplarity and Mediocrity : the Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism.
Exemplarity and Mediocrity explores the strategies modern German literature employed to increasingly attune itself to quotidian life-common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events-while at the same time avoiding all notions of mediocre quality.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1
- Exemplarity and Mediocrity; Exorbitant or Not at All; Living the "Mean" Life (Aristotle); The Rule of Mediocrity (Horace); Exemplary Originality (Kant); Exemplary Averageness (Kant/Schiller); Higher Criticism: Appreciating Mediocrity (Kleist); CHAPTER 2
- The Average Audience (Lessing on Bourgeois Tragedy); How to Avoid a Tragic Fate; Middle Heroes; The Great Commonizer: Compassion; Art Without Admiration, or, the End of the Age of Great Men; How Many Tears Should the "Best Human" Shed?