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What 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. The. |
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Reading for Stimmung: How to Think About the Reality of Literature Today; Moments; Fleeting Joys in the Songs of Walther von der Vogelweide; The Precarious Existence of the Pícaro; Multiple Layers of the World in Shakespeare's Sonnets; Amorous Melancholy in the Novellas of María de Zayas; Bad Weather and a Loud Voice: Diderot's Le Neveu de Rameau; Harmony and Rupture in the Light of Caspar David Friedrich; The Weight of Thomas Mann's Venice; Beautiful Sadness in Joaquim Machado de Assis's Last Novel; The Freedom of Janis Joplin's Voice; Situations. |
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The Iconoclastic Energy of Surrealism"Tragic Sense of Life"; Deconstruction, Asceticism, and Self-Pity; Acknowledgments; Bibliographical References. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Local Note |
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Mood (Psychology) in literature.
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Mood (Psychology) in literature. |
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature, Modern. |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Butler, Erik, 1971-
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Print version: 9780804781220 |
ISBN |
9780804783453 |
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0804783454 |
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9780804781213 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0804781214 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780804781220 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0804781222 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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