{"product_id":"complex-pleasure-forms-of-feeling-in-german-literature-paperback","title":"Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStanley Corngold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplex Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers-Lessing, Kant, Hölderlin, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe types of feeling treated in \u003ci\u003eComplex Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e include wit (the startling perception of likeness) and the disinterested pleasure of aesthetic judgment; Hölderlin's \"swift conceptual grasp,\" in which \"the \u003ci\u003etempo\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Boy Who Sank Out of Sight\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers--Lessing, Kant, Holderlin, 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe types of feeling treated in Complex Pleasure include wit (the startling perception of likeness) and the disinterested pleasure of aesthetic judgment; Holderlin'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). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegance 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, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin].--Ian Balfour, York University.\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley Corngold is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eFranz Kafka: The Necessity of Form\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBorrowed Lives\u003c\/i\u003e (with Irene Giersing.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.48 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451538292914,"sku":"9780804729406","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/75775f6eb79f1bcf84f45e1a864f7b51.webp?v=1778796929","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/complex-pleasure-forms-of-feeling-in-german-literature-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}