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Author Kolb, Martina, author.

Title Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the azure spell of Liguria / Martina Kolb.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (gxii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series German and European studies ; 16
German and European studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index.
Contents Preface : Ligurian geopoetics -- [Part] I. 'Twixt Halcyon and Marathon : azure spell and difficult beauty. Riviera existence -- On the Ligurian edge -- Luring onomastics -- [Part] II. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn : a Ligurian complex. Copious dawns, high noons, blessed isles : Nietzsche's Ligurianity -- Guilt trips on royal roads : Freud's Ligurian affinities -- Blind spots, alibis, sceneries : Benn's Ligurian complexes -- Postface : Liguria rediviva.
Summary "The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe's major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors and artists. In this study, Martina Kolb traces Liguria's specific impact on the works of three seminal German-writing modernists - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn - whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and world.
Kolb examines each of these authors' acquired affinities with Ligurian and Provençal landscapes and seascapes, revisiting and reassessing the long tradition of northern longing for a Mediterranean south. She also shows how Freud and Benn followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche in his most prolific years, a topic which has received little critical attention to date. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria offers a fresh approach to these writers' groundbreaking literary achievements and profound interest in poetic expression as cathartic self-liberation."--Pub. desc.
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Language Includes some text in German and Provençal, followed by the English translations.
Subject Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Liguria.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Italy -- Liguria.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Liguria.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Benn, Gottfried, 1886-1956 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Liguria.
Benn, Gottfried, 1886-1956.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Benn, Gottfried, 1886-1956.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- Italie -- Ligurie.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- Italie -- Ligurie.
Benn, Gottfried, 1886-1956 -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- Italie -- Ligurie.
German literature -- Themes, motives.
German literature -- Themes, motives.
Liguria (Italy) -- In literature.
Geography in literature.
Geography in literature.
Geographical perception in literature.
Geographical perception in literature.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Liguria (Italy) -- Intellectual life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kolb, Martina, author. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the azure spell of Liguria 9781442643291 (DLC) 2012286399 (OCoLC)815853015
ISBN 9781442695825 (electronic book)
144269582X (electronic book)
9781442643291
1442643293