Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Author: Agnieszka H. Hudzik, Joanna M. Moszczyńska, Jorge Estrada, Patricia A. GwozdzElective Affinities
Author: Lydia GoehrPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231144803
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto. Aesthetic theory, she argues, depends on a dynamic philosophy of history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs, and potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno and Danto regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and human experience as arguments for continuation and survival. Elective Affinities tracks the migration of aesthetic and critical theory from Germany to the United States following the catastrophic period of the twentieth century marked by the Second World War.
Elective Affinities
Author: Catriona MacLeodPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042026197
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Catriona MacLeod -- Summaries -- Consulting the Manual: Word and Image in Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés /Michael R. Taylor -- Living and Dying in the Limelight: Performing the Self in Frida Kahlo's Diary and Paintings /Adriana Dragomir -- Imbrication de l'image, du texte et de la musique dans un corpus de prières énigmatiques à la Vierge /Laurence Wuidar -- The Künstlerroman as Romantic Arabesque: Parody, Collaboration, and the Making of The Modern Vasari (1854) /Cordula Grewe -- The “Inscapes” of Louis le Brocquy /Karen E. Brown -- American Scenery/Canadian Scenery: Conflicting Views of Indigenes in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Portrayals of the American Continent /Robert Grant -- Cartoonists as Matchmakers: The Vibrant Relationship of Text and Image in the Work of Lynda Barry /Miriam Harris -- The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan's Critique of the Society of the Spectacle /Steen Christiansen -- Le magazine français Vu (1928-40): Naissance de l'information visuelle et utopie de la substitution de l'image photographique au texte écrit /Danielle Leenaerts -- From Ekphrasis to History: Verbal Transformations of the Display of Picture Galleries--Wilhelm Heinse and Friedrich Schlegel /Hubert Locher -- Modernizing History and Historicizing Modernity: Baudelaire and Baudelairean Representations of Contemporaneity /Lauren S. Weingarden -- Serial Künstler: Portrait of the Artist as a Malefactor /Valentin Nussbaum -- Hypnotic Performance and the Falsity of Appearances: The Aesthetics of Medical Spectatorship and Axel Munthe's Critique of Jean-Martin Charcot /Jonathan Marshall -- New Light and Old Shadows: Industrial Illumination and its Imaginaire /Susana Oliveira -- Illustrating the Shadow of Doubt: Henry James, Blindness, and “The Real Thing” /Jennifer A. Greenhill -- Picturing Paradise: Baudelaire's “L'Invitation au voyage” /Eric T. Haskell -- The Writing-Drawing Continuum of Alexei Remizov /Julia Friedman -- Aby Warburg as Reader of Gottfried Semper: Reflections on the Cosmic Character of Ornament /Spyros Papapetros -- John Heartfield's Insects and the “Idea” of Natural History /Cristina Cuevas-Wolf -- The Photographic Thought of Latina/o Literature and Cultural Critique /María DeGuzmán -- Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein, Fassbinder: Découpage Aesthetics on the Divide /Susan Nurmi-Schomers -- (Ideo-)Logical Alliances between Image and Script: Calligraphic Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Art /Birgit Mersmann -- Contributors -- Index.
Goethe's Elective Affinities
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332812882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Excerpt from Goethe's Elective Affinities: With an Introduction AT the request of Mr. D. W. Niles, publisher, Boston, I have re-read, having read with pleasure and profit. In my early life, the Elective A inities of Goethe, an English translation of which Mr. Niles proposes to publish for the use of the American public; and he does me the honor to think that my views of the value of _the, book may contribute some what to its success among us at this time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
After Jena
Author: Peter J. SchwartzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780838757192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After Jena is the first scholarly work in English to set Goethe's influential and controversial novel Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) squarely within the turbulent time in which it was written. Peter J. Schwartz explores the era of rapid modernization following Prussia's defeat at the battle of Jena-Auerstedt (1806)--a battle that permitted Napoleon to extend French hegemony throughout Continental Europe and to dissolve or reform the institutional structures of the German ancien regime. Adducing evidence from many spheres and applying the tools of several disciplines, Schwartz persuasively shows how Elective Affinities reflects post-Jena changes in marriage, property and inheritance law and in the political role of the German nobility. He links questions of character, fate and sacrifice in the novel to modern problems of sovereignty and legitimacy and investigates how key scenes in the novel comment implicitly on Napoleon, Rousseau, the French Revolution, and the politics and aesthetics of the German Romantics. After Jena reveals the novel's ethical core to be a calculus of political legitimacy, and its aesthetics a means of conciliating tensions provoked by modernity's onrush. It will be of special interest to students of literature, history, philosophy, art history and aesthetics. Illustrated. Peter J. Schwartz is Assistant Professor of German at Boston University.
Magritte and Literature
Author: Ben StoltzfusPublisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058679608
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte (1898–1967) is well known for his thought-provoking and witty images that challenge the observer’s preconditioned perceptions of reality. Magritte and Literature examines some of the artist's major paintings whose titles were influenced by and related to works of literature. Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, Goethe's Elective Affinities, and Poe's The Domain of Arnheimare representative examples of Magritte's interarts dialog with literary figures. Despite these convergences the titles subvert the images in his paintings. It is the two images together, the image in the painting and the image in the title, that expresses the aesthetics of Surrealism -- sparked by the juxtaposition of unrelated objects. Magritte's challenge to representation compares with metafiction's challenge to classic realism, Les Chants de Maldoror for example, and the intersecting space between art and writing, sometimes referred to as the iconotext, manifests itself whenever Magritte borrows a literary title for a painting. His strategy is to paint visible thought, and this reverse ekphrasis, the opposite of a rhetorical description of a painting, undermines the written text. When he succeeds, the effect is poetry.
Author: Torbern BergmanGoethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics
Author: Astrida Orle TantilloPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132123
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The first book-length examination in English of the critical reception of Goethe's daring novel The Elective Affinities. From the time of its publication to today, Goethe's famous novel The Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809), has aroused a storm of critical confusion. Critics in every age have vehemently disagreed about its content (whether it defends the institution of marriage, radically supports its dissolution, or even whether it is about marriage at all), its style (whether it is romantic, realistic, modern, or postmodern) and its tone (whether it is tragic, anti-romantic, or ironic). The present study begins by focusing upon the reaction of Goethe's contemporaries, and then discusses Goethe's own efforts -- in light of the initial negative critical reaction -- toshape the novel's reception. It continues by viewing the novel through the lens of 19th-century Hegelianism, positivism, and biographical studies, and by exploring the relationship between the novel's 19th-century reception and the growth of psychoanalytic theory and German nationalism. Moving on to the 20th century, the book considers the re-evaluation of Goethe's scientific works, the impact of World War II on the novel's interpreters, and the growing influence of literary theory. Here particular emphasis is placed upon Walter Benjamin's seminal essay on the novel and upon the criticism that the essay has inspired. Astrida Orle Tantillo is assistant professor of German at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Redemption and Utopia
Author: Michael LowyPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786630850
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to transform modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of German Romanticism and Jewish messianism, their thought was organized around the cabalistic idea of the “tikkoun”: redemption. Redemption and Utopia uses the concept of “elective affinity” to explain the surprising community of spirit that existed between redemptive messianic religious thought and the wide variety of radical secular utopian beliefs held by this important group of intellectuals. The author outlines the circumstances that produced this unusual combination of religious and non-religious thought and illuminates the common assumptions that united such seemingly disparate figures as Martin Buber, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Georg Lukács.
