{"product_id":"the-look-of-things-carsten-strathausen-9781469615165","title":"The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision Around 1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eExamining 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetry 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carsten Strathausen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469615169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469615165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Carsten Strathausen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930809549055,"sku":"9781469615165","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_574513c8-3e00-4bd1-ab7a-69ac73a93eb5.jpg?v=1766344422","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-look-of-things-carsten-strathausen-9781469615165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}