Walter Benjamin’s Calderón
Literary Criticism and the Baroque
Jacobo de Camps
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ISBN: 978-1-839542-98-5 (hardback) • RRP £95, $120, €120 ISBN: 978-1-839542-99-2 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-839543-00-5 (JSTOR ebook) Why 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 postdoctoral thesis on German baroque drama, written in 1925 and published in 1928 as Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (The Origin of German Tragic Drama)? Based on Benjamin’s early writings about Baroque drama, Origin, 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. Jacobo de Camps is Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Bibliography entry: Camps, Jacobo de, Walter Benjamin’s Calderón: Literary Criticism and the Baroque, Studies In Comparative Literature, 58 (Legenda, 2025) First footnote reference: 35 Jacobo de Camps, Walter Benjamin’s Calderón: Literary Criticism and the Baroque, Studies In Comparative Literature, 58 (Legenda, 2025), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Camps, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Camps, Jacobo de. 2025. Walter Benjamin’s Calderón: Literary Criticism and the Baroque, Studies In Comparative Literature, 58 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Camps 2025: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Camps 2025: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Walter-Benjamins-Calderón www.mhra.org.uk/publications/sicl-58 |
19 March 2025