The Spell of Italy - Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe - Hardback - 2006

Examines the degree to which Germanys literary and cultural traditions appropriated a phantasmic Italy. This study shows how Winckelmanns art history and Goethes 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.
Year of publication: 2006
Pagination: 304 pages
Format: Hardback
Serie: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series