Words chiseled into marble : artworks in the prose narratives of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
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Words chiseled into marble : artworks in the prose narratives of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
（North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature, vol. 9）
P. Lang, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-222) and index
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Description
This book provides fascinating insight into C. F. Meyer's inclusion of visual-spatial artworks in his narrative texts. It pinpoints what is most uniquely characteristic of Meyer's means of representing works of art, and offers fruitful comparisons with contemporaries such as Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book takes a fresh look at Meyer's historical realism, and elucidates how his reconstructions of European history reflect his problematic borderline stance as a multilingual Swiss and a Protestant aesthete.
Table of Contents
Contents: Meyer's means of representing artworks in verbal narratives are analyzed narratologically. His art-historical realism, his stance as translator, and his ambivalence towards the cultic function of the arts are studied.
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