Yale French Studies, Number 124 - Walter Benjamin's Hypothetical French Trauerspiel (English, French, Paperback)

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, political compromise, the question of allegory, the philosophy of the provisional, the place of sound, and the status of the creaturely.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Yale French Studies
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Hall Bjornstad • Katherine Ibbett
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-19420-3
Languages:	English • French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	0-300-19420-X
Barcode:	9780300194203

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