{"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 • Author(s): Kenneth S. Calhoon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47571894239383,"sku":"9781442645998","price":7284.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781442645998.webp?v=1774888432","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/affecting-grace-theatre-subject-and-the-shakespearean-paradox-in-german-literature-from-lessing-to-kleist-9781442645998","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}