Aesthetic anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : uncanny symptoms in German literature and culture / / Laurie Ruth Johnson

• Autore: Johnson Laurie Ruth
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 830.9
• Soggetto topico: German literature - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-267).
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Aesthetic Anxiety and the Uncanny -- The Uncanny Before Freud: Psychological and Philosophical Aspects -- Beautiful Breakdowns: Uncanny Symptoms and the Aestheticization of Illness -- Conspiracy Theories: The Melancholy and Manipulated Male Subject -- Too Much Memory: Uncanny Love -- Conclusion - Childish Anxiety, Wish, Belief -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: Aesthetic Anxiety analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often horrible, but sometimes also enjoyable, experience of anxiety can be an aesthetic mode as well as a psychological state. Johnson’s elucidation of that state in texts by authors from Kant to Rilke demonstrates how estrangement can produce attachment, and repositions Romanticism as an engine of modernity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Aesthetic anxiety
• ISBN: 1-282-79304-7; 9786612793042; 90-420-3114-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816837303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 141.