Lessings Theorie der Tragodienwirkung: Humanistische Tradition und aufklakrerische Erkenntniskritik.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Nisbet, H.B. | Copyright information

Lessings Theorie der Tragodienwirkung: Humanistische Tradition und aufklarerische Erkenntniskritik. By THOMAS MARTINEC. (Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 116) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. ix +252 pp. 46[euro]. ISBN 3-484-32II6-4.

Komodientheorie and Komodienschaffen Gotthold Ephraim Lessings. By AGNES KORNBACHER-MEYER. (Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft, 21) Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 2003. 342 pp. 72[euro]. ISBN 3-428-10907-4.

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