Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture

Laurie R Johnson

Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Publisher	Rodopi
Number of pages	267
ISBN (Print)	978-90-420-3114-2
State	Published - Jan 1 2010

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Name	Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Volume	141

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Johnson, L. R. (2010). Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft; Vol. 141). Rodopi.

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