The marble statue as idea collected essays on Adalbert Stifter's Der Nachsommer
Sjögren, Christine Oertel.
Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press
1972
Introduction: The Marmorgestalt and the concept Gestalt.--Isolation and death.--Mathilde and the roses.--The Cereus Peruvianus: illustration of a Gestalt.--Affirmation of formlessness.--The monstrous painting.--The equivocal light of the Marmorsaal: traces of mysticism.--The human Gestalten and the fools.--Conclusion: Heinrich's progress toward the Marmorgestalt.--Selected bibliography (p. 112-119)
Stifter, Adalbert, 1805-1868.