Aesthetic anxiety : uncanny symptoms in German literature and culture /

Aesthetic anxiety : uncanny symptoms in German literature and culture /

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Author / Creator:Johnson, Laurie Ruth.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.
Description:267 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 141
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 141.
Subject:
German literature -- Themes, motives.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Anxiety in literature.
Anxiety -- Germany.
Aesthetics, German.
Aesthetics, German.
Anxiety.
German literature -- Themes, motives.
Anxiety in literature.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Germany.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8266090
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ISBN:9789042031135
9042031131
Notes:Partly previously published.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-267).
Summary:"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."--Publisher's website.

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