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 Kunzelmann,
Heide / Simon,
Anne (Eds.)
THE
WINDOW
Motif and Topos in Austrian, German and Swiss Art and Literature
2016 · ISBN
978-3-86205-438-1
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210 S., kt. · EUR 26,—
LONDON GERMAN STUDIES
XV
Institute of
Modern Languages Research · School of Advanced
Study · University of London
Windows – those thinner patches in the
external skins of buildings that function as both barrier and channel
between the individual and the outside world. They structure the facades of
buildings and hence our everyday environment. They display articles of
desire, technological progress and economic growth and so reveal new
departures in style, aspiration and attitudes to the individual. Through the
built environment in which we live, windows even function as building blocks
of our personal identity. This volume illustrates how an item so central to
our everyday life comes to govern aesthetic discourses concerned with
openness and knowledge. It also identifies how, in the German cultural
context, the literature, art and architecture of different epochs exploit
the window's potential as both physical portal and metaphor for human
interconnectedness, self-perception and the transcendence of the self.
CONTENTS
Heide Kunzelmann and Anne Simon:
Introduction
Anne Simon: Illuminating Allegiance: the Politics of Fenestration
Richard Littlejohns: Windows in Romanticism: Existential Claustrophobia
Kate Roy: ‘Hinter dem eisernen Gitter ihres Fensters’: the Harem Window as
Active Frame in Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Emily Ruete’s ‘Entführung’
David Darby: ‘nicht zu nah und nicht zu weit’: Windows and the Domestication
of Modernity in Fontane’s Berlin
Gianna Zocco: ‘Menschwerdung’ at the Window: The Motif of the Window and the
Quest for Identity in Four Austrian Novels by Heimito von Doderer, Peter
Handke, Gerhard Roth, and Richard Obermayr
Konrad Harrer: The Phenomenology of the Window in Robert Walser
Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel: A Window to the Black Box: Stories from
a Calm Surveillance Society
Heike Bartel: Views Through the Car: Driving and Seeing in Modern and
Contemporary German-language Literature
Bibliography · Index · Contributors’ Biographies |
