Literary Essays (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series) Book

	In Itself	1
	Depending on Which	1
	Saving Face	1
	Good Advice	1
	Letter and Book	2
	Mummy and Fine Wine	2
	Dearly Bought Armoires	2
	Poor Vantage	2
	Ever Onward	3
	As If in Print	4
	No Fuss	4
	A Whole Page of Glad Tidings	5
	The Usual, Quite Instructive, Survey of Books	7
	Still in Luxurious Binding	9
	Lehar-Mozart	11
	The Full Beard as Harp	14
	Steiner's Uralinda Chronicle	17
	Lenard's German Physics	19
	Cultural Bolshevism Unpacked	22
	The Familiar Weir	24
	A Different Position	26
	Two Inscriptions	27
	From Torture to the Court of No Appeal	28
	The Pious Prohibition of German Art Criticism	31
	Nobel Prize and Expatriation	42
	Spengler and Russia	47
	"Consciousness as Doom"	51
	The Faithful Child's Holy Christ	56
	Significant Change in Cinematic Fables	59
	Elsewhere, Things Happen	63
	The Inn in the Spessart	64
	Pontoppidan's Novel Lucky Hans	67
	Ulrik Brendel's Talent (in Rosmersholm)	71
	The Art of Speaking Schiller	74
	Schiller in Weimar: High Point and Turning Point	78
	Poetry in Hollow Space	97
	Marxism and Poetry	113
	On the Present in Literature	119
	A Scarcity of Themes for Opera	135
	Taking Mercantile Latin Seriously	139
	Further Asides	143
	The Homeland's Bitter Art	143
	Afterword to Hebel's Schatzkastlein	146
	On Music in the Cinema	156
	The Musical Stratum in Cinema, Revisited	159
	On an Anthology of Figurative Art from Africa and the South Pacific	162
	The Fairy Tale Moves On Its Own in Time	167
	Tricot and State Uniform	169
	Lichtenberg and the Like, from Above and Below	171
	On the Text of Beckmesser's Prize Song	178
	Arrival and Overtures	184
	A Drawing by Kubin	184
	Hans Sachs's Address to the Elder-Blossoms	186
	The Awakening	189
	The Unbearable Moment	189
	Sledding at Eye Level	191
	Self-Portrait Without Mirror	192
	Great Moments That Pass Unnoticed	196
	Images of Deja Vu	200
	A Philosophical View of the Detective Novel	209
	A Philosophical View of the Novel of the Artist	227
	Alienation, Estrangement	239
	On The Tales of Hoffman	246
	The Magic Flute and Contemporary Symbols	250
	Paradoxes and Pastorale in Wagner	255
	Magic Rattle and Human Harp	290
	Destruction and Salvation of Myth Through Light	296
	The Anxiety of the Engineer	304
	Technology and Ghostly Apparitions	314
	Hebel, Gotthelf, and the Rustic Tao	321
	Can Hope Be Disappointed?	339
	The Song of Pirate Jenny in The Threepenny Opera	345
	Ponce de Leon, Bimini, and the Fountain	350
	Short Way	354
	Silent Land	355
	Salons in the Dust	355
	Wasteland and Small Town	357
	A Pleasant Recollection of Mannheim	358
	Berlin, as Viewed from the Landscape	361
	St. Paul's Worms	371
	The Three Fratellini, or the Ramps of Arcadia	374
	Astonishment at the Rhine Falls	378
	Excavation of the Brocken	383
	Autumn, Marsh, Heath, and Secession	389
	On Images of Nature Since the End of the Nineteenth Century	397
	The Rock Dove, the Neanderthal, and the True Human	409
	Loch Ness, the Sea Monster, and Dacque's Legend of the Primeval World	417
	Trader Horn in Africa	422
	At the Strasbourg Cathedral	426
	The Alps Without Photography	433
	The Maloja-Chiavenna Drift	442
	The Italian Night of Venice	446
	Italy and Porosity	450
	The Empire of Syagrius	457
	Burial Ground and Commemoration of Utopias, Geographically Considered: Prairie and Steppe	464
	Goethe's Drawing The Ideal Landscape	473
	Landscape Around New Year's Eve and New Year's Day	477
	Decelerated Time, Accelerated Time, and Space	482
	False Freshness	487
	The So-Called Jewish Question	488
	Greetings to Klemperer as "Conductor" of the Masters	492
	Must Books Have Fates?	493
	Spoken and Written Syntax: Anacoluthon	497
	On Fine Arts in the Machine Age	505
	Architecture and the Stone Age	511
	Antigone and Beethoven's Leonore	513
	On a Metaphor in Keller	515
	Notes	521
	Index	531