Aesthetic dilemmas : encounters with art in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's literary modernism /

"Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) is frequently portrayed in cultural histories as an aloof writer with a precious style, out of step with modern sensibilities. In Aesthetic Dilemmas Marlo Burks reassesses Hofmannsthal's oeuvre and its place in twentieth-century European modernist aesthet...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burks, Marlo A., 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, > 1874-1929 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, > 1874-1929.
Art in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • A Note on Language and Titles
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Aestheticism
  • 1 Aestheticism in "Das Märchender 672. Nacht" ("The Tale of Night Six Hundredand Seventy-Two") and the 1902" Ansprache" ("Address")
  • 2 Art and Society in "Die Briefe des Zurückgekehrten" ("The Letters of the Man Who Returned")
  • 3 Art and History in "Augenblicke in Griechenland" ("Moments in Greece")
  • 4 Aesthetic Transfiguration in Die Frau ohne Schatten
  • 5 Violence and Art in Andreas
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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