Lessing's Laocoon: Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason

by David E. Wellbery

This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics. The central text under consideration shows that the extended comparison of poetry and the plastic arts contained in that major work of aesthetic criticism rests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521109396
• ISBN13: 9780521109390
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"