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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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 challenges to the division of art and experience. Readers in and between many disciplines will find this deeply perceptive account of the magical workings of enchantment, charisma, and the sublime in texts, images and bodies, empowering and uplifting. It cannot fail to influence the next generation of thought about the arts and media more generally."-Paul Binski, University of Cambridge "Enchantment formulates a compelling theory of charismatic art as an alternative to our Western preoccupation with mimesis and hermeneutics. With the learning, passion, and verve familiar from his distinguished medieval scholarship, Jaeger's argument ranges magisterially from the body art of primitive cultures, through Classical epic, medieval sculpture, pedagogy and romance (the high point of charismatic culture in the West), all the way to Rilke and American cinema."-Jane K. Brown, University of Washington "An intelligent, thought-provoking, and compelling discussion of the phenomenon of personal charisma and its transformative effects. C. Stephen Jaeger takes the reader through a stunning series of examples from literature, the visual arts, and film across a very broad historical range, from classical antiquity to the present. Throughout, he presents his claims in highly communicative and inviting prose. A sheer pleasure to read."-John T. Hamilton, Harvard University Read more...
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- Arts -- History and criticism.
- Charisma (Personality trait) in literature.
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