Languages of visuality
Subtitle: crossings between science, art, politics, and literature
By: edited by Beate Allert.
Contributors: Allert, Beate, 1954-
Series: Kritik; Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Aesthetics.; Image (Philosophy); Vision.; Criticism.; Hermeneutics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Classical Greek origins of Western aesthetic theory / John T. Kirby; title: Visible sounds and audible colors : the ocular harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel / Joachim Gessinger; title: Opera in the light of technology / Friedrich A. Kittler; title: "Infinitely repellant orbs" : visions of the self in the American Renaissance / Richard Hardack; title: "Moral astronomy" : on a metaphor in Novalis and its conceptual context / Karl Menges; title: The dialectic of Romantic Enlightenment and the psychodynamics of the hypervisual in Hölderlin's Hyperion / Harald Weilnböck; title: Aldo Palazzeschi and Giorgio de Chirico : decentralized antitraditional aesthetics / Anthony Julian Tamburri; title: Myth, invisibility, and politics in the late work of Paul Klee / Kathryn E. Kramer; title: The eye's mind : Henry James's The sacred fount and Vladimir Nabokov's The eye / Karen Jacobs; title: "Teichoscopy" in the Wall novels of Peter Schneider and Uri Orlev / Jeffrey Garrett; title: Visual citations : Walter Benjamin's dialectic of text and image / Azade Seyhan; title: Writing and the nature of the supernatural image, or, Why ghosts float / Christopher Collins.