Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria

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.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsPreface: Ligurian GeopoeticsI - 'Twixt Halcyon and Marathon: Azure Spell and Difficult BeautyRiviera ExistenceOn the Ligurian EdgeLuring OnomasticsII - Ligurian Lures: Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Gottfried Benn Copious Dawns, High Noon, Blessed Isles: Nietzsche's LigurianityGuilt Trips on Royal Roads: Freud's Ligurian AffinitiesBlind Spots, Alibis, Sceneries: Benn's Ligurian ComplexesPostface: Liguria RedivivaNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Martina Kolb is an assistant professor in the Departments of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and in Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martina Kolb, KOLB MARTINA
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2013
• EAN: 9781442643291
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4329-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: German and European Studies; German and European Studies (H; German and European Studies; German and European Studies (H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies