Exemplarity and mediocrity
Subtitle: the art of the average from bourgeois tragedy to realism
By: Paul Fleming.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780804758901
Subjects: German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Aesthetics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exemplarity and mediocrity; title: Common heroes : the making of an exemplary audience (Lessing on bourgeois tragedy); title: Mediocre artists : the aesthetic education of the dilettante (Goethe and Schiller); title: Average life : the art of prosaic reality (Grillparzer and Stifter).