TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calhoon,Kenneth C.
TI  - Affecting Grace: Literature from Lessing to Kleist 
T2  - German and European Studies
SN  - 9781442645998
U1  - 830.9 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Affecting Grace 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.Extending from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597) to Kleist's The Broken Jug (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
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