Aesthetic Anxiety

Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-420-3113-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 141, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

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.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Aesthetic Anxiety and the Uncanny
The Uncanny Before Freud: Psychological and Philosophical Aspects
Beautiful Breakdowns: Uncanny Symptoms and the Aestheticization of Illness
Conspiracy Theories: The Melancholy and Manipulated Male Subject
Too Much Memory: Uncanny Love
Conclusion: Childish Anxiety, Wish, Belief
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Laurie Johnson is Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She published The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism: Memory, History, Fiction, and Fragmentation in Texts by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis with Max Niemeyer Verlag in 2002. Johnson has published articles on Friedrich Schlegel and the practice of animal magnetism, psychosomata in Romantic psychology and literature, and Early Romantic philosophy and aesthetics.