LEADER 04910nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910463477703321 005 20211014004722.0 010 $a1-283-89894-2 010 $a0-8122-0652-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206524 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046170 035 $a(OCoLC)822017756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642172 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000597353 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11358282 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000597353 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10577815 035 $a(PQKB)10248744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441837 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17530 035 $a(DE-B1597)449524 035 $a(OCoLC)979756469 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206524 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441837 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642172 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421144 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046170 100 $a20110721d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnchantment$b[electronic resource] $eon charisma and the sublime in the arts of the west /$fC. Stephen Jaeger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (436 p.) 225 0 $aHaney Foundation Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-2335-7 311 0 $a0-8122-4329-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [379]-415) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction --$t1. Charisma and Art --$t2. Living Art and Its Surrogates: The Genesis of Charismatic Art --$t3. Odysseus Rising: The Homeric World --$t4. Icon and Relic --$t5. Charismatic Culture and Its Media: Gothic Sculpture and Medieval Humanism --$t6. Romance and Adventure --$t7. Albrecht Durer's Self-Portrait (1500): The Face and Its Contents --$t8. Book Burning at Don Quixote's --$t9. Goethe's Faust and the Limits of the Imagination --$t10. The Statue Changes Rilke's Life --$t11. Grand Illusions: Classic American Cinema --$t12. Lost Illusions: American Neorealism and Hitchcock's Vertigo --$t13. Woody Allen: Allan Felix's Glasses and Cecilia's Smile --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhat is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal charisma-and indeed, in his award-winning Envy of Angels, Jaeger himself brilliantly parsed the ability of charismatic teachers to shape the world of medieval learning. In Enchantment, he turns his attention to a sweeping and multifaceted exploration of the charisma not of individuals but of art. For Jaeger, the charisma of the visual arts, literature, and film functions by creating an exalted semblance of life, a realm of beauty, sublime emotions, heroic motives and deeds, godlike bodies and actions, and superhuman abilities, so as to dazzle the humbled spectator and lift him or her up into the place so represented. Charismatic art makes us want to live in the higher world that it depicts, to behave like its heroes and heroines, and to think and act according to their values. It temporarily weakens individual will and rational critical thought. It brings us into a state of enchantment. Ranging widely across periods and genres, Enchantment investigates the charismatic effect of an ancient statue of Apollo on the poet Rilke, of the painter Dürer's self-portrayal as a figure of Christ-like magnificence, of a numinous Odysseus washed ashore on Phaeacia, and of the black-and-white projection of Fred Astaire dancing across the Depression-era movie screen. From the tattoos on the face of a Maori tribesman to the haunting visage of Charlotte Rampling in a film by Woody Allen, Jaeger's extraordinary book explores the dichotomies of reality and illusion, life and art that are fundamental to both cultic and aesthetic experience. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aArts$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCharisma (Personality trait) in literature 606 $aCharisma (Personality trait) in mass media 606 $aSublime, The, in art 606 $aSublime, The, in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArts$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCharisma (Personality trait) in literature. 615 0$aCharisma (Personality trait) in mass media. 615 0$aSublime, The, in art. 615 0$aSublime, The, in literature. 676 $a700.1 700 $aJaeger$b C. Stephen$031374 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463477703321 996 $aEnchantment$92471793 997 $aUNINA