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The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe - Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series Richard Block Annotated edition
The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe - Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Richard Block
Examines the degree to which Germany's literary and cultural traditions appropriated a phantasmic Italy. This study shows how Winckelmann's art history and Goethe's Italian journey predisposed later writers to search for an aesthetic ideal in Italy that did not exist, and how their search for this absent ideal resulted in disillusionment.
304 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 14, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780814332696 |
| Publishers | Wayne State University Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 23 mm · 571 g |
| Language | English |