UID:
almahu_9949703911702882
Format:
1 online resource (267 pages)
ISBN:
9789042031142
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:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Johnson, Laurie Ruth. Aesthetic anxiety. Amsterdam [etc.] : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042031135
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
