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Aesthetic anxiety : uncanny symptoms in German literature and culture

By Johnson , Laurie Ruth

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2010
ISBN
9042031131, 978-90-420-3113-5, 978-90-420-3114-2, 904203114X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5813801 bytes)
Series
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 141
Pages
267\261
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

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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