ISBN:
9781469658452
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1469658453
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
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illustrations
Series Statement:
University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures no. 126
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Strathausen, Carsten Look of things
DDC:
831/.91209
Keywords:
Rilke, Rainer Maria Criticism and interpretation
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Hofmannsthal, Hugo von Criticism and interpretation
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George, Stefan Criticism and interpretation
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George, Stefan
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Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
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Rilke, Rainer Maria
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George, Stefan
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Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
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Rilke, Rainer Maria
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German poetry History and criticism 20th century
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German poetry History and criticism 19th century
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Aestheticism (Literature)
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Aestheticism (Literature)
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German poetry
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Beeldende kunsten
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Esthetica
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Letterkunde
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Duits
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Lyrik
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Sehen
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Fin de siècle
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Deutsch
Abstract:
Speaking gaze of modernity --Intuition and language --Aestheticism, romanticism, and the body of language --Hofmannsthal and the voice of language --Rilke's stereoscopic vision --Other as same: the politics of the George Circle.
Abstract:
"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 Stefan 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 signifies. Rather than simply describing or picturing the physical experience of looking, as critics have commonly maintained, modernist poetry claims to enable a more profound kind of perception that grants intuitive insights into the very texture of the natural world."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and index
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