(Cynical hypothesis: tragic and humble origins, even if they don't make sense, work better to evoke empathy for a heroic character).
This tragic situation has its origin in good intentions.
It's the same kind of stuff that gives this tragic villain-to-be origin story about a fanatical collector the relevancy it needs to confront modern-day "toxic" fandom.
Walter Benjamin, the German 20th century philosopher, in his book The Origin of German Tragic Drama[16], explains how baroque drama stages the sorrowful as opposed to the tragic.
Walter Benjamin, the German 20th century philosopher, in his book The Origin of German Tragic Drama[ 16], explains how baroque drama stages the sorrowful as opposed to the tragic.
Benjamin gives a slightly bewildering reading of Hamlet in his wonderfully difficult 1928 book, The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
The Franks over whom she sought to rule resented her Gothic origin, and the tragic course of her life has made her a figure of legend.
His halfhearted pursuit of an academic career was cut short when the University of Frankfurt rejected his brilliant but unconventional doctoral thesis, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (1928; The Origin of German Tragic Drama).
But even as he was researching the thesis, which became "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," Benjamin suspected that it would never be approved by the tradition-bound faculty.
But I never did, and I wondered, later on, rereading my notes, whether this expressed the convergence of political history with natural history that Walter Benjamin writes about in his essay "The Origin of German Tragic Drama"—a convergence that becomes supernatural along with death passing into the petrified, timeless landscape.
