Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period. Dorie Reents-Budet. Duke University Press, Durham, 1994. xxi + 376 pp., 270 illustrations in the text, color catalog of 95 pieces, appendix, references, index. $75.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper).

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-279
Author(s):  
Virginia E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Classic Period ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Text Color

From Mediation to Medium: Aesthetic and Anthropological Dimensions of the Image (Bild) and the Crisis of Bildung in German Modernism

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pfau
Keyword(s):  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Narrative Process ◽  
Radical Transformation

Thomas Pfau (Duke University) explores the radical transformation of the Bildungsroman - and of the image ( Bild ) as its narrative, speculative fuel - in ‘The Magic Mountain’. Contrasting Mann's narrative process with that of Goethe and Hegel, and drawing on the sociological writings of Georg Simmel and Arnold Gehlen, Pfau reads Mann's novel as decisively breaking with Romanticism's self-generating, organicist, and teleological conception of cultural narrative.

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