The window : motif and topos in Austrian, German and Swiss art and literature / edited by Heide Kunzelmann and Anne Simon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kunzelmann, Heide, 1975- editor.

Simon, Anne, editor.

Series:

London German studies ; 15.

London German studies ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Windows in literature.

Windows in art.

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Art, German--Themes, motives.

Art, German.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

210 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

München : Iudicium ; London University of London, School of Germanic Studies, [2016]

Summary:

"Windows - those thinner patches in the external skins of buildings that function as both barrier and channel between the individual and the outside world. They structure the facades of buildings and hence our everyday environment. They display articles of desire, technological progress and economic growth and so reveal new departures in style, aspiration and attitudes to the individual. Through the built environment in which we live, windows even function as building blocks of our personal identity. This volume illustrates how an item so central to our everyday life comes to govern aesthetic discourses concerned with openness and knowledge. It also identifies how, in the German cultural context, the literature, art and architecture of different epochs exploit the window's potential as both physical portal and metaphor for human interconnectedness, self-perception and the transcendence of the self." --back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Heide Kunzelmann and Anne Simon

Illuminating allegiance: the politics of fenestration / Anne Simon

Windows in Romanticism: existential claustrophobia / Richard Littlejohns

'Hinter dem eisernen Gitter ihres Fensters': the harem window as active frame in nineteenth-century narratives of Emily Ruete's 'Entführung' / Kate Roy

'nicht zu nah und nicht zu weit': windows and the domestication of modernity in Fontaine's Berlin / rDavid Darby

'Menschwerdung' at the window: the motif of the window and the quest for identity in four Austrian novels by Heimito von Doderer, Peter Handke, Gerhard Roth, and Richard Obermayr / Gianna Zocco

The phenomenology of the window in Robert Walser / Konrad Harrer

A window to the black box: stories rom a calm surveillance society / Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel

Views through the car: driving and seeing in modern and contemporary German-language literature / Heike Bartel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-201) and index.

ISBN:

0854572481

9780854572489

9783862054381

3862054381

OCLC:

951158997