Exemplarity and mediocrity the art of the average from bourgeois tragedy to realism / [electronic resource] :
Paul Fleming.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
- vi, 226 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-222) and index.
Exemplarity and mediocrity -- Common heroes : the making of an exemplary audience (Lessing on bourgeois tragedy) -- Mediocre artists : the aesthetic education of the dilettante (Goethe and Schiller) -- Average life : the art of prosaic reality (Grillparzer and Stifter).
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
German literature--History and criticism.--18th century German literature--History and criticism.--19th century Aesthetics in literature.