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Night passages: philosophy, literature, and film

By Brenner , Elisabeth , David;Bronfen

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780231519724, 9780231147989, 9780231147996, 0231147996, 0231519729
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6009136 bytes)
Pages
471 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

List of Illustrations Prologue: My Queen of the Night Acknowledgments Introduction: Exile of the Star-Blazing Queen in The Magic Flute Part I. Cosmogonies of the Night 1. Nyx and her Children 2. "Let there be darkness!" 3. Hegel's Night of the World 4. Freud's Night Side of the Soul Part II. Night Talks 5. Shakespeare's Night World 6. Freud's Book of Dreams 7. A Poetics of Insomnia Part III. Gothic Nights 8. Moral Temptations of the Night 9. Seeing the World Darkly 10. Night's Doubles 11. The Nocturnal Flaneur Part IV. Film Noir's Nights 12. Return of a Hollywood Star 13. Nocturnal Desire of the Femme fatale 14. Into the Night 15. Fate and Chance Part V. The Ethics of Awakening 16. What Lies at the End of the Night 17. George Eliot's Dawn 18. Edith Wharton's Twilight 19. Virginia Woolf's Nights and Days Bibliography Index

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