TY - BOOK
T1 - Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture
AU - Johnson, Laurie Ruth
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/ 671253052
U2 - 10.1163/9789042031142
DO - 10.1163/9789042031142
M3 - Book
SN - 978-90-420-3113-5
T3 - Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
BT - Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture
PB - Brill
ER -