Image in outline : reading Lou Andreas-Salome / by Gisela Brinker-Gabler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinker-Gabler, Gisela, author.

Series:

New Directions in German Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andreas-Salomé, Lou, 1861-1937--Criticism and interpretation.

Andreas-Salomé, Lou.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Image in Outline introduces the reader to Lou Andreas-Salom 's significant engagement with modern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her major texts, Brinker-Gabler examines Andreas-Salom 's contributions to contemporary discourses on meaning, perception, memory, and the unconscious. Situating her analyses within Andreas-Salom 's historical, social, and intellectual contexts, this new reading utilizes a theoretical frame informed by thinkers such as Benjamin, Bergson, and Freud, and current theoretical perspectives by Irigaray, Grosz, and Kristeva. Brinker-Gabler argues that Andreas-Salom - committed as she was to the "double direction" of rigorous thought and individual nuancing - refocused dominant visions of gender, sexuality, culture, religion, and creativity through a female lens. In a "disenchanted world" (Weber), Andreas-Salom offered an image epistemology or "aesthetics of b(u)ilding," as Brinker-Gabler calls it, that seeks to retrieve the multilayered past embedded in individuals and cultural forms, thus providing positive accounts of sexual and cultural difference, experience, narcissism, and creativity in modern life."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter One: Umriss

B(u)ilding Woman or Sexual Difference

Chapter Two: Andreas-Salom 's Aesthetics

Chapter Three: Icon: B(u)ilding Russia or Cultural Difference

Chapter Four: Nachtrauer: B(u)ilding Rilke or Modern Creativity

Chapter Five: (Un)doing Modern Thought

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [148]-157) and index.

ISBN:

9781441151957

1441151958

9781628926767

1628926767

9781283735940

1283735946

9781441133380

1441133380

OCLC:

836399975