A Cultural Inquiry into the German Enlightenment Tragedy

Abstract

Abstract: In the light of modernity horizon, the German tragic dramas from 1850s to 1930s represented by Schiller, Goethe and Lessing may be argued to have been most deeply influenced by the Enlightenment Movement and become an independent cultural phenomenon of Enlightenment. The German tragic drama embodies the characteristics of German Enlightenment and infuses modernity to the German national culture, and it may well be called Enlightenment Tragedy. German enlightenment tragedy becomes an expression of the modernistic pursuit of German enlightenment culture, and the paper demonstrates the five aspects of the modernity German enlightenment tragedy pursued.

Key words: German enlightenment tragedy, enlightenment culture, modernity

Zhang Yuan. A Cultural Inquiry into the German Enlightenment Tragedy[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2013, 33(3): 208-214.

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