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Columbia University Press Night Passages – Philosophy, Literature, and Film

Name: Night Passages - Philosophy, Literature, and Film
Brand: Columbia University Press
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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 investigates the nocturnal spaces in which extraordinary events unfold, and casts a critical eye into the darkness that enables the irrational exploration of desire, transformation, ecstasy, transgression, spiritual illumination, and moral choice. She begins with an analysis of classical myths depicting the creation of the world and then moves through night scenes in Shakespeare and Milton, Gothic novels and novellas, Hegel's romantic philosophy, and Freud's psychoanalysis. Bronfen also demonstrates how modern works of literature and film, particularly film noir, can convey 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 comprehensible from the dark realms of the unknown. Review [A] brilliantly idiosyncratic study...--CHOICE [A] sprawling meditation on the meanings of the night; it is full of restless, probing insights.--Matthew Beaumont "Times Literary Supplement " About the Author Elisabeth Bronfen is professor of English and American studies at the University of Zurich. Her numerous books include Specters of War: Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict; Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity, and the Aesthetic; The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents; and Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema.

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Brand: Columbia University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0231147988
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 October 2013
Listed Since: 11 May 2013

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