The Look of Things Poetry and Vision around 1900

• मुख्य लेखक: Strathausen, Carsten (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2003
• श्रृंखला: UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures 126
• विषय: Literature: history & criticism; Poetry; German Studies; Literature
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stefan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography and film. Poetry around 1900 self-reflectively celebrated its own words as both transparent signs and material objects, Strathausen says. In Aestheticism, this means that language harbors the potential to literally present the things it signifies. Rather than simply describing or picturing the physical experience of looking, as critics have commonly maintained, modernist poetry claims to enable a more profound kind of perception that grants intuitive insights into the very texture of the natural world.