Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon : antiquity, enlightenment, and the 'limits' of painting and poetry

Ever since its publication in 1766, Lessing's 'Laocoon' has exerted an incalculable influence on western thought. This volume offers an interdisciplinary reassessment on its 250th anniversary, exploring how Lessing's debts to the Graeco-Roman past enabled him to forge a new tradi...

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Other Authors: Lifschitz, Avi (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Squire, Michael (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017
Edition:First edition
Series:Classical presences
Subjects:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim > 1729-1781 > Laocoon
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/oup-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802228.001.0001
Author Notes:Avi Lifschitz and Michael Squire
E-Book Packages:Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies Collection

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