Aesthetic anxiety [electronic resource] : uncanny symptoms in German literature and culture / Laurie Ruth Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Laurie Ruth.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 141.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 141

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-267).

ISBN:

1-282-79304-7

9786612793042

90-420-3114-X

OCLC:

670411603

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042031142 DOI