The look of things : poetry and vision around 1900 / / Carsten Strathausen.

• Superior document: University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 126
• Author: Strathausen, Carsten.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 126.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

Table of Contents

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Question and Answer, or Aesthetics Revisited; Of Circles and Riddles; The Look of Things; Part I; 1. The Speaking Gaze of Modernity; 2. Intuition and Language; Excursus; Part II; 3. Aestheticism, Romanticism, and the Body of Language; 4. Hofmannsthal and the Voice of Language; 5. Rilke's Stereoscopic Vision; 6. Other as Same: The Politics of the George Circle; Notes; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C-D; E-G; H; I; J-L; M-N; O-R; S-V; W-Z