The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision Around 1900 - Couverture rigide

Strathausen, Carsten

 
9780807881262: The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision Around 1900
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ISBN 10 : 0807881260 ISBN 13 : 9780807881262
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Carsten Strathausen is assistant professor of German at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807881260
ISBN 13 
9780807881262
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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