9. Goethe’s Faust and the Limits of the Imagination

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Charisma and Art 11
5. 2. Living Art and Its Surrogates: The Genesis of Charismatic Art 48
6. 3. Odysseus Rising: The Homeric World 76
7. 4. Icon and Relic 98
8. 5. Charismatic Culture and Its Media: Gothic Sculpture and Medieval Humanism 134
9. 6. Romance and Adventure 162
10. 7. Albrecht Durer’s Self-Portrait (1500): The Face and Its Contents 185
11. 8. Book Burning at Don Quixote’s 204
12. 9. Goethe’s Faust and the Limits of the Imagination 225
13. 10. The Statue Changes Rilke’s Life 267
14. 11. Grand Illusions: Classic American Cinema 288
15. 12. Lost Illusions: American Neorealism and Hitchcock’s Vertigo 321
16. 13. Woody Allen: Allan Felix’s Glasses and Cecilia’s Smile 347
17. Conclusion 370
18. Notes 379
19. Index 417
20. Acknowledgments 425