Laokoon
Wiggins, Ellwood. "The Moral Aesthetic of the Scream: Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Hidden Structure of Lessing's Laokoon." Lessing Yearbook 51 (2024): 51-71.
This essay uncovers a hidden moral agenda in Lessing's famous aesthetic treatise, Laocoon, or on the Boundaries of Painting and Poetry (1766) by tracing its intertextual dialogue with Sophocles' Philoctetes.
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