Enchantment : : On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West / / C. Stephen Jaeger.
What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal charisma-and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 52 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. Charisma and Art
- 2. Living Art and Its Surrogates: The Genesis of Charismatic Art
- 3. Odysseus Rising: The Homeric World
- 4. Icon and Relic
- 5. Charismatic Culture and Its Media: Gothic Sculpture and Medieval Humanism
- 6. Romance and Adventure
- 7. Albrecht Durer's Self-Portrait (1500): The Face and Its Contents
- 8. Book Burning at Don Quixote's
- 9. Goethe's Faust and the Limits of the Imagination
- 10. The Statue Changes Rilke's Life
- 11. Grand Illusions: Classic American Cinema
- 12. Lost Illusions: American Neorealism and Hitchcock's Vertigo
- 13. Woody Allen: Allan Felix's Glasses and Cecilia's Smile
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments