LEADER 03557nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910817655403321 005 20230801224445.0 010 $a0-8047-8345-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804783453 035 $a(CKB)2670000000242650 035 $a(EBL)1029219 035 $a(OCoLC)813004705 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755080 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12318024 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755080 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730010 035 $a(PQKB)11424810 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1029219 035 $a(DE-B1597)564641 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804783453 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1029219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10604677 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769961 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000242650 100 $a20111216h20122012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAtmosphere, mood, Stimmung$b[electronic resource] $eon a hidden potential of literature /$fHans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; translated by Erik Butler 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (149 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-8121-4 311 0 $a0-8047-8122-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tReading for Stimmung --$tFleeting Joys in the Songs of Walther von der Vogelweide --$tThe precarious existence of the pícaro --$tMultiple layers of the world in Shakespeare?s sonnets --$tAmorous Melancholy in the novellas of María de Zayas --$tBad weather and a loud voice --$tHarmony and rupture in the light of Caspar David Friedrich --$tBeautiful sadness in Joaquim Machado DeAssis?s last novel --$tThe freedom of Janis Joplin?s voice --$tThe iconoclastic energy of surrealism --$t?Tragic sense of life? --$tDeconstruction, asceticism, and self-pity --$tAcknowledgments --$tBibliographical references 330 $aWhat are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step further, exploring the substance and reality of language as a material component of the world?impalpable hints, tones, and airs that, as much as they may be elusive, are no less matters of actual fact. Reading, we discover, is an experiencing of specific moods and atmospheres, or Stimmung. These moods are on a continuum akin to a musical scale. They present themselves as nuances that challenge our powers of discernment and description, as well as language's potential to capture them. Perhaps the best we can do is to point in their direction. Conveying personal encounters with poetry, song, painting, and the novel, this book thus gestures toward the intangible and in the process, constitutes a bold defense of the subjective experience of the arts. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aMood (Psychology) in literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aMood (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a809/.93353 700 $aGumbrecht$b Hans Ulrich$0170658 701 $aButler$b Erik$f1971-$01615139 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817655403321 996 $aAtmosphere, mood, Stimmung$93945212 997 $aUNINA