The look of things : poetry and vision around 1900 / / Carsten Strathausen.
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 incr...
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| Superior document: | University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 126 |
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| 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. |
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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