Languages of visuality : crossings between science, art, politics, and literature / edited by Beate Allert.

Other author Allert, Beate, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoDetroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesKritik
Kritik (Detroit, Mich.) ^A377685
Contents Classical Greek origins of Western aesthetic theory / John T. Kirby -- Visible sounds and audible colors : the ocular harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel / Joachim Gessinger -- Opera in the light of technology / Friedrich A. Kittler -- "Infinitely repellant orbs" : visions of the self in the American Renaissance / Richard Hardack -- "Moral astronomy" : on a metaphor in Novalis and its conceptual context / Karl Menges -- The dialectic of Romantic Enlightenment and the psychodynamics of the hypervisual in Hölderlin's Hyperion / Harald Weilnböck -- Aldo Palazzeschi and Giorgio de Chirico : decentralized antitraditional aesthetics / Anthony Julian Tamburri -- Myth, invisibility, and politics in the late work of Paul Klee / Kathryn E. Kramer -- The eye's mind : Henry James's The sacred fount and Vladimir Nabokov's The eye / Karen Jacobs -- "Teichoscopy" in the Wall novels of Peter Schneider and Uri Orlev / Jeffrey Garrett -- Visual citations : Walter Benjamin's dialectic of text and image / Azade Seyhan -- Writing and the nature of the supernatural image, or, Why ghosts float / Christopher Collins.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95045568
ISBN0814326072 (pbk. : alk. paper)