The look of things poetry and vision around 1900
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
2003.
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| Series: | University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ;
no. 126. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009653810706719 |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807863237 |
