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  1. Atmosphere, mood, Stimmung
    on a hidden potential of literature
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

    Reading for Stimmung: How to Think About the Reality of Literature Today; Moments; 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... more

    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    Reading for Stimmung: How to Think About the Reality of Literature Today; Moments; 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; Situations. The Iconoclastic Energy of Surrealism"Tragic Sense of Life"; Deconstruction, Asceticism, and Self-Pity; Acknowledgments; Bibliographical References. What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step further, exploring the substance and reality of language as a material component of the world-impalpable hints, tones, and airs that, as much as they may be elusive, are no less matters of actual fact. Reading, we discover, is an experiencing of specific moods and atmospheres, or Stimmung. These moods are on a continuum akin to a musical scale. The

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0804783454; 9780804783453
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Mood (Psychology) in literature; Literature, Modern; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; Mood (Psychology) in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: Online Ressource (vi, 140 pages), illustrations.
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    "Originally published in German in 2011 under the title Stimmungen lesen (c)2011, Carl Hanser Verlag. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record

  2. Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung
    On a Hidden Potential of Literature
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0804783454; 9780804783453
    RVK Categories: EC 1970 ; EC 5410 ; EC 5910
    Subjects: Literature, Modern / History and criticism / Theory, etc; Mood (Psychology) in literature; Space flight in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Mood (Psychology) in literature; Literature, Modern
    Scope: 1 online resource (149 pages)
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    What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step further, exploring the substance and reality of language as a material component of the world-impalpable hints, tones, and airs that, as much as they may be elusive, are no less matters of actual fact. Reading, we discover, is an experiencing of specific moods and atmospheres, or Stimmung. These moods are on a continuum akin to a musical scale. The

    Reading for Stimmung: How to Think About the Reality of Literature Today; Moments; 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; Situations

    The Iconoclastic Energy of Surrealism"Tragic Sense of Life"; Deconstruction, Asceticism, and Self-Pity; Acknowledgments; Bibliographical References