{"product_id":"affecting-grace-theatre-subject-and-the-shakespearean-paradox-in-german-literature-from-lessing-to-kleist-9781442645998","title":"Affecting Grace: Theatre, Subject, and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAffecting Grace\u003c\/em\u003e examines the importance of Shakespeare's poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 - including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. Kenneth S. Calhoon examines this tension against an extensive backdrop that includes a number of canonical German authors - Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Lessing, von Kleist, and Nietzsche - as well as the advent of Meissen porcelain, the painting of Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi, and aspects of German styles of architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtending from Shakespeare's\u003cem\u003e The Merchant of Venice\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1597) to Kleist's \u003cem\u003eThe Broken Jug \u003c\/em\u003e(1806), this study turns on the paradox that the German literary world had begun to embrace Shakespeare just as it was firming up the broad but pronounced anti-Baroque sensibility found pivotally in Lessing's critical and dramatic works. Through these investigations, Calhoon illuminates the deep cultural changes that fundamentally affected Germany's literary and artistic traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth S. Calhoon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.33w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442645998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalhoon, Kenneth S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eKenneth S. Calhoon\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44923844067443,"sku":"9781442645998","price":115.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_13f1970b-1184-416b-aca1-e98ec8a7aa36.jpg?v=1778002032","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/affecting-grace-theatre-subject-and-the-shakespearean-paradox-in-german-literature-from-lessing-to-kleist-9781442645998","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}