Atmosphere, mood, Stimmung on a hidden potential of literature / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; translated by Erik Butler.
| Author/creator | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Other author | Butler, Erik, 1971- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012] |
| Description | 140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Stimmungen lesen. English |
| Contents | Reading for Stimmung : how to think about the reality of literature today -- 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 -- The iconoclastic energy of surrealism -- Tragic sense of life -- Deconstruction, asceticism, and self-pity. |
| General note | "Originally published in German in 2011 under the title Stimmungen lesen ©2011, Carl Hanser Verlag." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references ( pages 137-140). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011052151 |
| ISBN | 9780804781213 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780804781220 (pbk. : alk. paper) |