Author: Corngold, Stanley
Title: Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, (1998). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xviii,243 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Wit & Judgment; or, Lessing & Kant; What Is Radical in Kant's " Critique of Aesthetic Judgment"; Hölderlin's "Swift Conceptual Grasp"; Nietzsche's Moods; Telling Sadism in Musil's 'Young Törless"; Rapture in Exile: Kafka's "The Boy Who Sank Out of Sight"; Hearing Homonymy in Trakl' s "De Profundis"; Benjamin's "Affective Understanding" of Hölderlin's Odes "The Poet's Courage" & "Timidity".

Keywords: Literary Criticism, German Literature, Aesthetics, Appreciation, Emotion Emotions, Holderlin, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, G.E. Lessing