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The look of things : poetry and vision around 1900 / Carsten Strathausen.
LIBRA PT551 .S77 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strathausen, Carsten.
- Series:
- University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 126.
- University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 126
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- George, Stefan, 1868-1933.
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
- German poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- German poetry.
- German poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria.
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von.
- George, Stefan, 1868-1933--Criticism and interpretation.
- George, Stefan.
- Aestheticism (Literature).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, N.C. ; London : University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect'" of photography and film.
- Poetry around 1900 self-reflectively celebrated its own words as both transparent signs and material objects, Strathausen says. In Aestheticism, this means that language harbors the potential to literally present the things it signifies. Rather than simply describing or picturing the physical experience of looking, as critics have commonly maintained, modernist poetry claims to enable a more profound kind of perception that grants intuitive insights into the very texture of the natural world.
- Contents:
- 1. The Speaking Gaze of Modernity 35
- 2. Intuition and Language 73
- Excursus
- 3. Aestheticism, Romanticism, and the Body of Language 137
- 4. Hofmannsthal and the Voice of Language 146
- 5. Rilke's Stereoscopic Vision 190
- 6. Other as Same: The Politics of the George Circle 237.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807881260
- OCLC:
- 51264612
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