Lessing's Laocoon: Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason

by David E. Wellbery

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This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics. The central text under consideration shows that the extended comparison of poetry and the plastic arts contained in that major work of aesthetic criticism rests...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521109396

ISBN13:9780521109390

Release Date:July 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.81 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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