The dialectic between allegory and symbol in Origin of the German Trauerspiel

The present work proposes to analyze the dialectic between allegory and symbol elaborated from Walter Benjamin's rhetorical-aesthetic reading of the artistic form of the German Trauerspiel. Based on this, through a way of expository interpretation, we will address how the following three key mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: García Elizondo, Eduardo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2024
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)
Repository:Aufklärung (João Pessoa. Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufpb.br:article/69298
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/arf/article/view/69298
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Allegory
Symbol
Meaning
Reading
Mourning
Símbolo
Significar
Lectura
Duelo
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Summary:The present work proposes to analyze the dialectic between allegory and symbol elaborated from Walter Benjamin's rhetorical-aesthetic reading of the artistic form of the German Trauerspiel. Based on this, through a way of expository interpretation, we will address how the following three key moments are articulated in the book on the German Trauerspiel: the link between the Trauerspiel and the profane scene of reading, the particularity of allegorical signification, and the inseparability of allegory and mourning. From the exposition of these moments, we will arrive at some final considerations: within the field of the philosophy of art, the dialectic between allegory and symbol constitutes a rhetorical-aesthetic conception of meaning (Bedeutens), thought through a double characterisation that Benjamin finds in die Sprache.