Admin Who is Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht?
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. As well as publishing academic works and teaching graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford, Gumbrecht is recognized as a public intellectual in Europe and South America and contributes to a range of newspapers and journals in English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
What is Gumbrecht’s approach to the study of literature?
Throughout his writing, Gumbrecht emphasizes the importance of material experience to consuming literature and art. In Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (2012), Gumbrecht applies the concept of mood to the process of reading literary works.
What is Gumbrecht Stimmung?
Gumbrecht has written extensively on ” Stimmung “, a German word also referencing the tuning of musical instruments, but more commonly meaning ” mood ” and as such used by Gumbrecht to indicate the mood or atmosphere of a particular era or artistic work.
What is Gumbrecht’s work on presence?
In a 2006 interview with Gumbrecht, Ulrik Ekman describes Gumbrecht’s work on presence as an “extremely intricate oscillation between a move, perhaps unavoidable, towards epistemological sense-making and conceptualization on the one hand, and, on the other, an at least formally opening move in the direction of ontological concerns.”