TY - BOOK AU - Anthony Rudowski, Victor AB - This letter contains Lessing's most explicit observations on the distinction between poetry and prose as well as a unique proposal for emending Aristotle's interpretation of the dramatic method. Although both arguments are formulated in terms of Abbé Dubos' theory of signs, Lessing significantly modifies Dubos' doctrine by ideas derived from Alexander Baumgarten, Moses Mendelssohn, and Edmund Burke. An analysis of these modifications provides the framework for a critique of Lessing's aesthetic philosophy as a whole. DO - 10.5149/9781469658278_Rudowski ID - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200623_9781469658278_67 ID - OAPEN ID: 46311 ID - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39819 KW - German Studies KW - Literature L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39819/1/9781469658278_WEB.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38083 PB - The University of North Carolina Press PP - Chapel Hill PY - 1971 TI - Lessing's "Aesthetica in Nuce" : An Analysis of the May 26, 1769, Letter to Nicolai ER -