Atmosphere, mood, Stimmung
Subtitle: on a hidden potential of literature
By: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; translated by H. Erik Butler
Contributors: Butler, Erik, 1971- translator
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804781213; 9780804781220
Subjects: Mood (Psychology) in literature; History and criticism; Theory; Modern Literature
Work titles: Stimmungen lesen
Notes: "Originally published in German in 2011 under the title Stimmungen lesen ©2011, Carl Hanser Verlag."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reading for Stimmung : how to think about the reality of literature today; title: Fleeting joys in the songs of Walther von der Vogelweide; title: The precarious existence of the pícaro; title: Multiple layers of the world in Shakespeare's sonnets; title: Amorous melancholy in the novellas of María de Zayas; title: Bad weather and a loud voice : Diderot's Le neveu de rameau; title: Harmony and rupture in the light of Caspar David Friedrich; title: The weight of Thomas Mann's Venice; title: Beautiful sadness in Joaquim Machado de Assis's last novel; title: The freedom of Janis Joplin's voice; title: The iconoclastic energy of surrealism; title: Tragic sense of life; title: Deconstruction, asceticism, and self-pity.