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Author Johnson, Laurie Ruth.

Title Aesthetic anxiety : uncanny symptoms in German literature and culture / Laurie Ruth Johnson.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 141
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 141.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267).
Contents 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.
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.
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Subject German literature -- History and criticism.
German literature.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Anxiety in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Anxiety -- Germany.
Anxiety.
Germany.
Aesthetics, German.
Aesthetics, German.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Johnson, Laurie Ruth. Aesthetic anxiety. Amsterdam [etc.] : Rodopi, 2010 9789042031135
ISBN 9789042031142 (electronic book)
904203114X (electronic book)
9042031131 (Trade Paper)
9789042031135 (Trade Paper)
9789042031135