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Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism
Exemplarity and Mediocrity The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism
Author: Paul Fleming
Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature from 1750 to 1850 for increasingly attuning itself to quotidian life—common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events—while also avoiding all no...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804758901
ISBN-10: 0804758905
Publication Date: 12/11/2008
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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