Description: Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900
Brief description: Carsten Strathausen is assistant professor of German at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Review Quotes: "For all the discussion about what German Studies means in the early 21st century, Carsten Strathausen's book manages to address the field in many of its various instantiations. . . . [His] book is an ambitious and learned study; his insights are in substantial conversation with the literary traditions he examines and he interacts usefully with 20th-century German philosophical contributions while also, always, reaching beyond the linguistic turn. The value for scholars interested in this period will be found in Strathausen's revisioning of literary categories and their linkage to visuality that extends to the present."--German Quarterly Book Reviews