Death-drive : Freudian hautings in literature and art / Robert Rowland Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Robert Rowland.

Series:

Frontiers of theory.

Frontiers of theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death instinct.

Death.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A new theory of aesthetics in which artworks have a death-drive of their own.

Contents:

1. Memento Mori

2. The death-drive does not think

3. A subject is being beaten

4. White over red

5. Literature-repeat nothing

6. A harmless suggestion

7. The rest of radioactive light

Postscript: Approaching death.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-7160-9

1-282-74974-9

9786612749742

0-7486-4171-8

OCLC:

658187107