C Stephen Jaeger

Enchantment

On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West

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Produktbeschreibung

C. Stephen Jaeger is Gutsgell Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200, winner of the 1995 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, and Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility, both of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780812223354
• ISBN-10: 0812223357
• Artikelnr.: 42205578

Autorenporträt

C. Stephen Jaeger

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Charisma and Art
Chapter 2. Living Art and Its Surrogates: The Genesis of Charismatic Art
Chapter 3. Odysseus Rising: The Homeric World
Chapter 4. Icon and Relic
Chapter 5. Charismatic Culture and Its Media: Gothic Sculpture and Medieval
Humanism
Chapter 6. Romance and Adventure
Chapter 7. Albrecht Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500): The Face and Its Contents
Chapter 8. Book Burning at Don Quixote's
Chapter 9. Goethe's Faust and the Limits of the Imagination
Chapter 10. The Statue Changes Rilke's Life
Chapter 11. Grand Illusions: Classic American Cinema
Chapter 12. Lost Illusions: American Neorealism and Hitchcock's Vertigo
Chapter 13. Woody Allen: Allan Felix's Glasses and Cecilia's Smile
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments