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Aesthetics of Loss and Lessness

Angela Moorjani
This text probes the psychic and social roots of artistic scenarios of loss. Demonstrating that artistic activity is inextricably bonded to imaginary scripts of bereavement and these in turn to patterns of social dominance, the author argues in favor of an "aesthetics of lessness" that is, postmodern resistance to imaginary inscriptions of grief and their misogynist sequels. The book draws on psychoaesthetics, discourse theory and feminist social critiques to analyse literary visual figurations of loss. Included in its analysis of the romantic and post-romantic imaginary are readings of Merimee, Nerval, Hoffmann, H.D., Anne Hebert, Proust and Beckett, and essays, among others, on Kollwitz, Glacometti, Bellmer, Klee, Gidal and Oulton.
Autor: Moorjani, Angela
EAN: 9780312068271
Auflage: 1992
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 241
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK Palgrave Macmillan
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11.01.1992
Schlagworte: Philosophy
Größe: 23 × 162 × 237
Gewicht: 590 g