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 InfoStanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
Description140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Uniform titleStimmungen 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references ( pages 137-140).
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011052151
ISBN9780804781213 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804781220 (pbk. : alk. paper)