Languages of Visuality: Crossings between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature Book

	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
	Introduction	1
	Classical Greek Origins of Western Aesthetic Theory	29
	Visible Sounds and Audible Colors: The Ocular Harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel	49
	Opera in the Light of Technology	73
	"Infinitely Repellent Orbs": Visions of the Self in the American Renaissance	89
	"Moral Astronomy": On a Metaphor in Novalis and Its Conceptual Context	111
	The Dialectic of Romantic Enlightenment and the Psychodynamics of the Hypervisual in Holderlin's Hyperion	132
	Aldo Palazzeschi and Giorgio de Chirico: Decentralized Antitraditional Aesthetics	155
	Myth, Invisibility, and Politics in the Late Work of Paul Klee	174
	The Eye's Mind: Henry James's The Sacred Fount and Vladimir Nabokov's The Eye	187
	"Teichoscopy" in the Wall Novels of Peter Schneider and Uri Orlev	215
	Visual Citations: Walter Benjamin's Dialectic of Text and Image	229
	Writing and the Nature of the Supernatural Image, or Why Ghosts Float	242
	Index	263