Food for Vultures

Authors

  • Kenneth S. Calhoon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.5.0.3371

Abstract

Beginning with a comparison of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and certain paintings of Piet Mondrian, this essay explores the inherent abstraction of Romantic precursors to those Modernist literary and painterly compositions that (continue to) place a subject squarely before an expanse (of water, of light, or of dark).

Author Biography

  • Kenneth S. Calhoon

    Kenneth Calhoon is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. He received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of California, Irvine. Before joining Oregon’s faculty in 1987, he taught for two years at Haverford College. His writings cover topics that range from eighteenth-century literature and thought through the early twentieth century, his particular emphases being film, the visual arts and psychoanalysis. He is author of Fatherland: Novalis, Freud, and the Discipline of Romance(Wayne State, 1992) and editor of Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema(Wayne State, 2001). His most recent book is Affecting Grace: Theatre, Subject and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist(Toronto 2013).

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Published

2013-12-16

Issue

Vol. 5 (2014): Abstraction and Materiality in the Arts, Literature, and Music

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Food for Vultures. (2013). Konturen, 5, 105-123. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.5.0.3371