TY  - GEN
AU  - Strathausen,Carsten
TI  - The Look of Things : Poetry and Vision around 1900
SN  - 9780807863237_Strathausen
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Poetry
KW  - German Studies
KW  - Literature
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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 Stefan 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39872/1/9781469658452_WEB.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31427
ER  -