The Tragic Protestis, what has been said already says that no anticipations of aesthetic theory are in place here. When research stays on the level of primitive imagination, prior to the distinction between real and unreal, to merge art with life, it cannot serve as guideline for thoughts on what is distinctive within art. No canons of composition can be forthcoming, even the very concept of composition, implying a composer, must remain inadmissible; since, unlike the one of tragic art, the composer of tragic life will be here in question. No analysis of form need be expected, and when a form of vision is described, it will not be what artistic critics are used to dissect. Purely aesthetic instruments, such as plot, contrast, harmony, proper pitch, likene3s, recognition, com pleteness, will be of no use and no relevance at all. And it hardly need be mentioned that the age-fortified classification of artistic kinds remains strictly out of bounds. Here is perhaps the proper place to introduce a stylistic apology. I t is clear to everyone with a neat sense of seemliness in language that the use of unattached adjectives is very awkward in English. No one reading these paragraphs can be blamed for fidgeting when molested again and again with "the tragic" instead of "tragedy. " The excuse has perhaps transpired in the preceding passage. |
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... light which makes it shine yet in which it must drown : such is man's form of life . Breaking under the strain of infinite sunlight , man must recoil and find his way in shade . Yet he must vanquish darkness , to enliven his reason ...
... light which makes it shine yet in which it must drown : such is man's form of life . Breaking under the strain of infinite sunlight , man must recoil and find his way in shade . Yet he must vanquish darkness , to enliven his reason ...
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... light . Here arises the above mentioned query about the origin of the universe in time : if Mephisto is right , the Lord is no creator out of nothing , only a light - throwing fashioner of form out of the chaos of night . The Christian ...
... light . Here arises the above mentioned query about the origin of the universe in time : if Mephisto is right , the Lord is no creator out of nothing , only a light - throwing fashioner of form out of the chaos of night . The Christian ...
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... Light liking , light lassitude , light laughter - how light is the living in this world of the spirit ! No weight of toil , of heat , of fear , existing without the burdens of negative passions , of remorse , of Care is this vision ...
... Light liking , light lassitude , light laughter - how light is the living in this world of the spirit ! No weight of toil , of heat , of fear , existing without the burdens of negative passions , of remorse , of Care is this vision ...
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