The marble statue as idea / collected essays on Adalbert Stifter's Der Nachsommer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sjögren, Christine Oertel.

Series:

University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 72.

University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stifter, Adalbert, 1805-1868. Der Nachsommer.

Stifter, Adalbert.

Physical Description:

xi, 119 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1972.

Contents:

Introduction: The Marmorgestalt and the concept Gestalt.

Isolation and death.

Mathilde and the roses.

The Cereus Peruvianus: illustration of a Gestalt.

Affirmation of formlessness.

The monstrous painting.

The equivocal light of the Marmorsaal: traces of mysticism.

The human Gestalten and the fools.

Conclusion: Heinrich's progress toward the Marmorgestalt.

Selected bibliography (p. 112-119)

OCLC:

393783