Night passages : philosophy, literature, and film / Elisabeth Bronfen ; translated by the author with David Brenner.

By:

Bronfen, Elisabeth

Contributor(s):

Brenner, David

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (473 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780231519724
0231519729
9780231147989
0231147988
9780231147996
0231147996

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Tiefer als der tag gedacht. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Night Passages : Philosophy, Literature, and Film.DDC classification:

809.9333

LOC classification:

PN56.N5 B76 2013

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Contents:

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue: My Queen of the Night; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Exile of the Star-Blazing Queen in the Magic Flute; PART I: COSMOGONIES OF THE NIGHT; 1. Nyx and Her Children; 2. Let There Be Darkness; 3. Hegel's Night of the World; 4. Freud's Night Side of the Soul; PART II: NIGHT TALKS; 5. Shakespeare's Night World; 6. Freud's Book of Dreams; 7. A Poetics of Insomnia; PART III: GOTHIC NIGHTS; 8. Moral Temptations of the Night; 9. Seeing the World Darkly; 10. Night's Doubles; 11. The Nocturnal Flaneur; PART IV: NIGHT AND FILM NOIR.

12. Return of a Hollywood Star13. Nocturnal Desire of the Femme Fatale; 14. Into the Night; 15. Fate and Chance; PART V: THE ETHICS OF AWAKENING; 16. What Lies at the End of the Night; 17. George Eliot's Dawn; 18. Edith Wharton's Twilight; 19. Virginia Woolf's Nights and Days; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: In the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consciousness, as well as the world and art depicting them, emerged from this formless chaos. In fantasy, we seek to return to this original darkness. Particularly in literature, visual representations, and film, the night resiliently resurfaces from the margins of the knowable, acting as a stage and state of mind in which exceptional perceptions, discoveries, and decisions play out. Elisabeth Bronfen follows nocturnal spaces in which extraordinary events unfold, enabling the irrational exploration of desire, transformation, ecstasy, transgression, spiritual illumination, and moral choice. She begins with classical myths depicting the creation of the world and moves through nocturnal scenes in Shakespeare and Milton, Gothic figurations, Hegel's romantic philosophy, and Freud's psychoanalysis. In modern times, she shows how literature and film, particularly film noir, transmit that piece of night the modern subject carries within. From Mozart's "Queen of the Night" to Virginia Woolf 's oscillation between day and night, life and death, and chaos and aesthetic form, Bronfen renders something visible, conceivable, and tellable from the dark realms of the unknown.

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In the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consciousness, as well as the world and art depicting them, emerged from this formless chaos. In fantasy, we seek to return to this original darkness. Particularly in literature, visual representations, and film, the night resiliently resurfaces from the margins of the knowable, acting as a stage and state of mind in which exceptional perceptions, discoveries, and decisions play out. Elisabeth Bronfen follows nocturnal spaces in which extraordinary events unfold, enabling the irrational exploration of desire, transformation, ecstasy, transgression, spiritual illumination, and moral choice. She begins with classical myths depicting the creation of the world and moves through nocturnal scenes in Shakespeare and Milton, Gothic figurations, Hegel's romantic philosophy, and Freud's psychoanalysis. In modern times, she shows how literature and film, particularly film noir, transmit that piece of night the modern subject carries within. From Mozart's "Queen of the Night" to Virginia Woolf 's oscillation between day and night, life and death, and chaos and aesthetic form, Bronfen renders something visible, conceivable, and tellable from the dark realms of the unknown.

Translated from the German.

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