02987nam 2200565 a 450 991047684380332120170815111145.00-8078-6323-8(CKB)111087027924786(EBL)413434(OCoLC)476237574(SSID)ssj0000194152(PQKBManifestationID)11937241(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194152(PQKBWorkID)10226972(PQKB)11449337(MiAaPQ)EBC413434(EXLCZ)9911108702792478620021129d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe look of things[electronic resource] poetry and vision around 1900 /Carsten StrathausenChapel Hill University of North Carolina Press20031 online resource (339 p.)University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ;no. 126Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-8126-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-309) and index.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-ZExamining 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 itUniversity of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ;no. 126.German poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismGerman poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismAestheticism (Literature)German poetryHistory and criticism.German poetryHistory and criticism.Aestheticism (Literature)831.91209831/.91209Strathausen Carsten905703MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910476843803321The look of things2039888UNINA