Victor Anthony Rudowski

Lessing's Aesthetica in Nuce

An Analysis of the May 26, 1769, Letter to Nicolai. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 160 Seiten
ISBN 1469658267
EAN 9781469658261
Veröffentlicht Mai 2020
Verlag/Hersteller University of North Carolina Press
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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 Abbe 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.