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UNINA9910463677303321 |
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Autore |
Bronfen Elisabeth |
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Night passages : philosophy, literature, and film / / Elisabeth Bronfen |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (473 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dawn in literature |
Light and darkness in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Translated by the author with David Brenner." |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations ""; ""Prologue: My Queen of the Night ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Exile of the Star-Blazing Queen in the Magic Flute""; ""PART I: COSMOGONIES OF THE NIGHT""; ""1. Nyx and Her Children ""; ""2. Let There Be Darkness""; ""3. Hegel's Night of the World ""; ""4. Freud's Night Side of the Soul ""; ""PART II: NIGHT TALKS ""; ""5. Shakespeare's Night World ""; ""6. Freud's Book of Dreams ""; ""7. A Poetics of Insomnia ""; ""PART III: GOTHIC NIGHTS""; ""8. Moral Temptations of the Night ""; ""9. Seeing the World Darkly "" |
""10. Night's Doubles """"11. The Nocturnal Flaneur""; ""PART IV: NIGHT AND FILM NOIR""; ""12. Return of a Hollywood Star ""; ""13. Nocturnal Desire of the Femme Fatale""; ""14. Into the Night ""; ""15. Fate and Chance ""; ""PART V: THE ETHICS OF AWAKENING ""; ""16. What Lies at the End of the Night ""; ""17. George Eliot's Dawn ""; ""18. Edith Wharton's Twilight ""; ""19. Virginia Woolf's Nights and Days ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index "" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consciousness, as well as the world and art depicting them, emerged from this formless chaos. In fantasy, we seek to return to this original darkness. Particularly in literature, visual representations, and film, the night resiliently resurfaces from the margins of the knowable, |
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acting as a stage and state of mind in which exceptional perceptions, discoveries, and decisions play out.Elisabeth Bronfen follows nocturnal spaces in which extraordinary events unfold, enabling the irrational exploration of desire, transforma |
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