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The Origin of German Tragic Drama » (Reprint)

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Authors: Walter Benjamin, John Osborne (Translator), George Steiner
ISBN-13: 9781844673483, ISBN-10: 1844673480
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: June 2009
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Walter Benjamin

George Steiner, author of dozens of books (The Death of Tragedy, After Babel, Heidegger, In Bluebeard’s Castle, My Unwritten Books, George Steiner at the New Yorker), is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University.

Book Synopsis

Benjamin's most sustained and original work, considered one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Epistemo-Critical Prologue
Trauerspiel and Tragedy
Allegory and Trauerspiel

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