Blamberger, Günter
Thinking in Literature

On the Fascination and Power of Aesthetic Ideas. Translated by Joel Golb.

M'illumino/d'immenso - I'm lit/with immensity is Geoffrey Brock's translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti's poem Mattina. In the poem's minimalism, Ungaretti points to the maximal: the richness of poetry's expressive possibilities and the power of thinking in literature. This book addresses the fascination of readers to transcend the boundaries of their own in fiction, and literature's capacity, according to Kant, even to evoke, with the help of the development of aesthetic ideas, representations that exceed what is empirically and conceptually graspable. 227 Seiten mit 12 Farbabb., broschiert (Brill | Fink 2021) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear