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Lessing's Laocoon - Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
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Lessing's Laocoon - Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
Series: Anglica Germanica Series 2
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This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in
eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of
the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely
relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective
casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics. The central text
under consideration shows that the extended comparison of poetry
and the plastic arts contained in that major work of aesthetic
criticism rests upon a theory of signs and constitutes a complex
and global theory of aesthetic signification. His analysis of
Laocoon is preceded by chapters which establish the underlying
structure and influence of the Enlightenment metasemiotic - that
is, the place and function of the sign concept in the culture of
the early eighteenth century. As an important reinterpretation of
Lessing's Laocoon and of the development of German aesthetic
theory, this book will be of special interest to students and
scholars of German literature. Moreover, as a significant chapter
in the history of semiotics, it will be read with profit by all
those concerned with the history of literary criticism and
aesthetic theory.
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