{"product_id":"walter-benjamins-calderon-literary-criticism-and-the-baroque-hardcover","title":"Walter Benjamin's Calderón: Literary Criticism and the Baroque - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacobo de Camps\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin say that Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-81) was the virtual subject of his rejected \u003cem\u003eHabilitation\u003c\/em\u003e thesis on German baroque drama, written in 1925 and published in 1928 as \u003cem\u003eUrsprung des deutschen Trauerspiels\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Origin of German Tragic Drama\u003c\/em\u003e)? Based on Benjamin's early writings about Baroque drama, \u003cem\u003eOrigin\u003c\/em\u003e, and his letters to Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who helped him publish the text, in this monograph Jacobo de Camps reconstructs the unlikely dialogue between Calderón's theatre and Benjamin's thesis and offers a new perspective on current debates about the reading experience, literary criticism, and Spanish baroque drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacobo de Camps is AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher in the Humanities at the University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837623197893,"sku":"9781839542985","price":168.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/0CKki_k33Y9781839542985.webp?v=1771281967","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/walter-benjamins-calderon-literary-criticism-and-the-baroque-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}