Format:
1 Online-Ressource (267 pages)
ISBN:
9789042031142
Series Statement:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 141
Content:
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.
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:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-267)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042031135
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Johnson, Laurie Ruth Aesthetic anxiety Amsterdam [etc.] : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042031135
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789042031142
