Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century - Brossura

MacLeod, Catriona

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ISBN 10: 0810129345 ISBN 13: 9780810129344

Casa editrice: Northwestern Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Winner of the 2014 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for Best Book on Romanticism

In Fugitive Objects, Catriona MacLeod examines the question of why sculpture is both intensively discussed and yet rendered immaterial in German literature. She focuses on three forms of disappearance: sculpture’s vanishing as a legitimate art form at the beginning of the nineteenth century in German aesthetics, statues’ migration from the domain of high art into mass reproduction and popular culture, and sculpture’s dislodging and relocation into literary discourse. Through original readings of Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Adalbert Stifter, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and others, MacLeod reveals that if sculpture has disappeared from much of nineteenth-century German literature and aesthetics, it is a vanishing act that paradoxically relocates the statue back onto another cultural pedestal, attesting to the powerful force of the medium.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Catriona MacLeod is a professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Northwestern Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0810129345
• ISBN 13: 9780810129344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile