PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Clement, Christian
TI  - Trauerspiel und Offenbarung: Apokalyptik als Reflexionsfläche ästhetischer Theorie in Andreas Gryphius’ <em>Catharina von Georgien</em>
AID  - 10.1353/mon.2012.0025
DP  - 2012 Mar 20
TA  - Monatshefte
PG  - 1--15
VI  - 104
IP  - 1
4099  - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/104/1/1.short
4100  - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/104/1/1.full
AB  - This article explores the extensive use of apocalyptic imagery in Andreas Gryphius’ drama Catharina von Georgien. The author argues that in this play, Gryphius uses apocalypticism not only as a literary tool to demonstrate the futility of all worldly things, as was common in baroque literature, but also as a medium of reflecting about and illustrating drama theory. As Gryphius describes how drama can facilitate a deeper understanding of the world and the self, he refers to mystical concepts such as imitatio and unio, thus establishing a theory of drama which closely links not only aesthetics and apocalypse, but also aesthetic and mystical experience. Thus drama itself turns into a genuine apocalypse, whose purpose it is to facilitate transcendent experience. (CC; in German)