Fleming, Paul, 1968-

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).


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German literature--History and criticism.--18th century
German literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Aesthetics in literature.


Electronic books.

PT289 / .F58 2009eb

830.9/384