Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the azure spell of Liguria / Martina Kolb.

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Kolb, Martina [author.]

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TextLanguage: English, German, Occitan (post-1500) Original language: German, Occitan (post-1500) Series: German and European studiesPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (gxii, 264 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781442695825
144269582X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the azure spell of LiguriaDDC classification:

830.9/324518 23

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PN56.G48 K65 2013eb

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Preface : Ligurian geopoetics -- [Part] I. 'Twixt Halcyon and Marathon : azure spell and difficult beauty. Riviera existence -- On the Ligurian edge -- Luring onomastics -- [Part] II. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn : a Ligurian complex. Copious dawns, high noons, blessed isles : Nietzsche's Ligurianity -- Guilt trips on royal roads : Freud's Ligurian affinities -- Blind spots, alibis, sceneries : Benn's Ligurian complexes -- Postface : Liguria rediviva.

Summary: "The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe's major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors and artists. In this study, Martina Kolb traces Liguria's specific impact on the works of three seminal German-writing modernists - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn - whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and worldSummary: Kolb examines each of these authors' acquired affinities with Ligurian and Provençal landscapes and seascapes, revisiting and reassessing the long tradition of northern longing for a Mediterranean south. She also shows how Freud and Benn followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche in his most prolific years, a topic which has received little critical attention to date. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria offers a fresh approach to these writers' groundbreaking literary achievements and profound interest in poetic expression as cathartic self-liberation."--Pub. desc.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index.

Includes some text in German and Provençal, followed by the English translations.

"The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe's major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors and artists. In this study, Martina Kolb traces Liguria's specific impact on the works of three seminal German-writing modernists - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn - whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and world

Kolb examines each of these authors' acquired affinities with Ligurian and Provençal landscapes and seascapes, revisiting and reassessing the long tradition of northern longing for a Mediterranean south. She also shows how Freud and Benn followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche in his most prolific years, a topic which has received little critical attention to date. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria offers a fresh approach to these writers' groundbreaking literary achievements and profound interest in poetic expression as cathartic self-liberation."--Pub. desc.

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