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Book Title
Complex Pleasure
Publication Name
Complex Pleasure : Forms of Feeling in German Literature
Title
Complex Pleasure
Subtitle
Forms of Feeling in German Literature
Author
Stanley Corngold
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0804729409
EAN
9780804729406
ISBN
9780804729406
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Genre
Literary Criticism
Release Year
1998
Release Date
01/06/1998
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.6in
Item Length
8in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Item Width
5in
Number of Pages
264 Pages

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Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers--Lessing, Kant, Hlderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. On the basis of close readings of these authors Stanley Corngold makes vivid the following ideas: that where there is literature there is complex pleasure; that this pleasure is complex because it involves the impression of a disclosure; that this thought is foremost in the minds of a number of canonical writers; that important literary works in the German tradition--fiction, poetry, critique--can be illuminated through their treatment of literary feeling; and, finally, that the conceptual terms for these forms of feeling continually vary. The types of feeling treated in Complex Pleasure include wit (the startling perception of likeness) and the disinterested pleasure of aesthetic judgment; Hlderlin's "swift conceptual grasp," in which "the tempo of the process of thought is stressed"; "artistic imagination," mood, sadistic enjoyment, rapturous distraction, homonymic dissonance, and courage as a mode of literary experience. At the same time, through the deftness, range, and surprise of its execution, the book itself conveys complex pleasure. The reader will also find fascinating, hitherto untranslated material by Nietzsche ("On Moods") and Kafka (important sections from his journals and from his unfinished novel The Boy Who Sank Out of Sight).

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804729409
ISBN-13
9780804729406
eBay Product ID (ePID)
783193

Product Key Features

Author
Stanley Corngold
Publication Name
Complex Pleasure : Forms of Feeling in German Literature
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pt75.C67 1998
Reviews
"Written with enticing rhetoric and in an often-delightful polemical mode, Complex Pleasure vacillates between the temptation of a straight definition, whose premises are continuously undermined, and the pressure of literary texts, which emerges behind every theoretical demonstration. Thus, the book develops in the tension of the two languages, and keeps reflecting on itself, as it reflects the aesthetic experience."-- Literary Research / Recherche Litteraire, "Elegance and intelligence meet on virtually every page of this intriguing book. I was persuaded by the perspicacity and inventiveness of the individual chapters and even more by the cumulative effect of the readings [of Lessing, Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin]."--Ian Balfour, York University., "Written with enticing rhetoric and in an often-delightful polemical mode, Complex Pleasure vacillates between the temptation of a straight definition, whose premises are continuously undermined, and the pressure of literary texts, which emerges behind every theoretical demonstration. Thus, the book develops in the tension of the two languages, and keeps reflecting on itself, as it reflects the aesthetic experience."— Literary Research / Recherche Litteraire, "Elegance and intelligence meet on virtually every page of this intriguing book. I was persuaded by the perspicacity and inventiveness of the individual chapters and even more by the cumulative effect of the readings [of Lessing, Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin]."—Ian Balfour, York University., "Elegance and intelligence meet on virtually every page of this intriguing book. I was persuaded by the perspicacity and inventiveness of the individual chapters and even more by the cumulative effect of the readings [of Lessing, Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin]."-Ian Balfour, York University., "Written with enticing rhetoric and in an often-delightful polemical mode, Complex Pleasure vacillates between the temptation of a straight definition, whose premises are continuously undermined, and the pressure of literary texts, which emerges behind every theoretical demonstration. Thus, the book develops in the tension of the two languages, and keeps reflecting on itself, as it reflects the aesthetic experience."- Literary Research / Recherche Litteraire
Copyright Date
1998
Topic
European / German, General, Semiotics & Theory
Lccn
97-027866
Dewey Decimal
830.9
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Genre
Literary Criticism

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