Smell of Books A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature

Name: Smell of Books A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature
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ISBN: 9780472103836

ISBN-10: 0472103830

ISBN-13: 9780472103836

Edition: 1993

Authors: Hans J. Rindisbacher

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Book details

List price: $94.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 1/12/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Introduction


Scientific Aspects


Literary and Linguistic Aspects


Philosophical and Aesthetic Aspects


Sociohistorical Aspects


The Nineteenth Century


The German Realist Project of Deodorization


Soll und Haben: The Poetics of Business


Der Nachsommer: The Smell of the Rose


Smell Does Not Belong Here


Der grune Heinrich: Balsamic Breath


Effi Briest: Daughter of the Air


Pfisters Muhle: "L'Odeur de Pfister"


"Mother Russia, the Very Scent and Smell of Her"


First Love and Father and Sons: Fresh and Fragrant


Dostoyevsky: "The Odor of Corruption"


Tolstoy: "The Smell of that Striped Leather Ball"


"Apple Fragrance": "A Smell of Honey and Autumn Freshness"


The Turn of the Century: New Nervousness and the Olfactory Explosion


From Baudelaire to Rimbaud: "Des Senteurs Confondues"


Against the Grain: All Nerves


The Picture of Dorian Gray: Scents of Flowers


German Literature: Going Beyond "grauer Kartoffeldunst"


Malte Laurids Brigge: "Ein Duft ohne Rest"


From Expressionism to the Shoah: Power and Stench


From the "Idee vom Ferntaster" to Brave New World


The Stench of Power


The Smell Lingers On: "Der vertraute Brodem"


In Search of the Ultimate Scents


Das Parfum: "Die Uberzeugungskraft des Duftes"


"The Name, the Nose": "The noseless man of the future"


Storfall: "Der Geruch der Hybris"


Back to the Future


Bibliography


Index