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Enchantment : on charisma and the sublime in the arts of the West /

"What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, 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 -...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jaeger, C. Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Haney Foundation series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Charisma and Art
  • 2. Living Art and Its Surrogates: The Genesis of Charismatic Art
  • 3. Odysseus Rising: The Homeric World
  • 4. Icon and Relic
  • 5. Charismatic Culture and Its Media: Gothic Sculpture and Medieval Humanism
  • 6. Romance and Adventure
  • 7. Albrecht Durer's Self-Portrait (1500): The Face and Its Contents
  • 8. Book Burning at Don Quixote's
  • 9. Goethe's Faust and the Limits of the Imagination
  • 10. The Statue Changes Rilke's Life
  • 11. Grand Illusions: Classic American Cinema
  • 12. Lost Illusions: American Neorealism and Hitchcock's Vertigo
  • 13. Woody Allen: Allan Felix's Glasses and Cecilia's Smile
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.