UID:
edocfu_9959230828502883
Format:
1 online resource (261 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-79304-7
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9786612793042
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90-420-3114-X
Series Statement:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 141
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-420-3113-1
Language:
English
