Peter Szondi
On Textual Understanding and Other Essays.
University of Minnesota Press, 1986. Theory and History of Literature, Volume 15. Translation by Harvey Mendelsohn and foreword by Michael Hays. 0816612897 xxi/224 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright.
Contents:
Foreword: "Tracing a Critical Path: Peter Szondi and the Humanistic Tradition" by Michael Hays;
On Textual Understanding;
The Other Arrow: On the Genesis of the Late Hymnic Style;
The Notion of the Tragic in Schelling, Hölderlin, and Hegel;
Friedrich Schlegel and Romantic Irony, with Some Remarks on Tieck's Comedies;
Friedrich Schlegel's Theory of Poetic Genres: A Reconstruction from the Posthumous Fragments;
Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics Today;
"Tableau" and "Coup de Theatre": On the Social Psychology of Diderot's Bourgeois Tragedy;
Walter Benjamin's "City Portraits";
Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin;
The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105."
Notes
Index.