03236nam 22005771 450 991046367730332120200520144314.00-231-51972-9(CKB)2670000000410662(EBL)1192026(OCoLC)856868629(SSID)ssj0000983482(PQKBManifestationID)11546250(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983482(PQKBWorkID)11010894(PQKB)10679854(MiAaPQ)EBC1192026(Au-PeEL)EBL1192026(CaPaEBR)ebr10764851(CaONFJC)MIL562245(EXLCZ)99267000000041066220130822d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNight passages philosophy, literature, and film /Elisabeth BronfenNew York :Columbia University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (473 p.)"Translated by the author with David Brenner."0-231-14799-6 ""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 ""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, 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, transformaDawn in literatureLight and darkness in literatureElectronic books.Dawn in literature.Light and darkness in literature.809.9333Bronfen Elisabeth465377Brenner David377518MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463677303321Night passages2216722UNINA