Lessing's Laocoon : semiotics and aesthetics in the Age of Reason
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009
- ix, 275 p. ; 22 cm
- Anglica Germanica. Series 2 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics.
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Essing, Gotthold Ephraim, -- 1729-1781 Laocoön. Agesander Laocoon group Aesthetics, Modern semiotics