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Lessing's Aesthetica in Nuce: An Analysis of the May 26, 1769, Letter to Nicolai

Lessing's Aesthetica in Nuce: An Analysis of the May 26, 1769, Letter to Nicolai

Rudowski, Victor Anthony

Paperback

Series: University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a, Book 69

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1469658267
ISBN13: 9781469658261
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: May 1 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This letter contains Lessing's most explicit observations on the distinction between poetry and prose as well as a unique proposal for emending Aristotle's interpretation of the dramatic method. Although both arguments are formulated in terms of Abbé Dubos' theory of signs, Lessing significantly modifies Dubos' doctrine by ideas derived from Alexander Baumgarten, Moses Mendelssohn, and Edmund Burke. An analysis of these modifications provides the framework for a critique of Lessing's aesthetic philosophy as a whole.

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