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Night Passages: Philosophy, Literature, and Film
Elisabeth Bronfen (Ed.)
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Description for Night Passages: Philosophy, Literature, and Film
Hardback. Translator(s): Brenner, David. Num Pages: 496 pages, Figures: 21,. BIC Classification: APF; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231147989
SKU
V9780231147989
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About Elisabeth Bronfen (Ed.)
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.
Reviews for Night Passages: Philosophy, Literature, and Film
[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
Matthew Beaumont Times Literary Supplement