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Enchantment : on charisma and the sublime in the arts of the west
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Enchantment : on charisma and the sublime in the arts of the west

Author: C Stephen Jaeger
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Series: Haney Foundation series.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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This book examines charisma as the force in art, literature, and film that engages the reader's or viewer's consciousness and inspires admiration and imitation. Thirteen chapters analyze the workings  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: C Stephen Jaeger
ISBN: 9780812243291 0812243293
OCLC Number: 748290732
Description: 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Charisma and art --
Living art and its surrogates: the genesis of charismatic art --
Odysseus rising: the Homeric world --
Icon and relic --
Charismatic culture and its media: gothic sculpture and medieval humanism --
Romance and adventure --
Albrecht Dürer's Self-portrait (1500): the face and its contents --
Book burning at Don Quixote's --
Goethe's Faust and the limits of the imagination --
The statue changes Rilke's life --
Grand illusions: classic American cinema --
Lost illusions: American neorealism and Hitchcock's Vertigo --
Woody Allen: Allan Felix's glasses and Cecilia's smile.
Series Title: Haney Foundation series.
Responsibility: C. Stephen Jaeger.
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"C. Stephen Jaeger's magnificent, generous, and wide-ranging study has at its heart all that which is life-affirming. At every turn we encounter vigorous, eloquent, and intellectually consistent Read more...

 
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