He does not deign to soar, like Icarus, on borrowed wings. ... Even when Goethe claims that “Genius came to our aid and inspired Erwin von Steinbach,” as if genius were something coming from the outside, the applicability of the term to ...
The various texts Brown considersOCoincluding the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and DefoeOCoturn to exotic figures in order to delimit the aesthetic, and to aesthetics in order to comprehend the savage.
Splendor at Court: Renaissance Spectacle and the Theater of Power