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Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness

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  • © 1992

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  1. Angela Moorjani
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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Figurations of the Artistic Imaginary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Psychoaesthetics of Mourning: Pygmalion and the Venus Motif

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 3-26

    3. Cryptanalysis The Fetish-Bride: Hoffmann’s ‘Der Sandmann’

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 27-40

  3. Repetitions of Grief 1: War, Male Artists, and Projections of Loss

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-43
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    2. The Fragmented Body Motif: Dix, Masson, Giacometti, Picasso

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 45-61

    3. Anagrams of Self: Hans Bellmer

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 62-74

    4. Exile, Fracture and the Dance of Death: Paul Klee and Walter Benjamin

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 75-102

  4. Repetitions of Grief 2: Women Artists and the Maternal Metaphor

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-105
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    2. Sacrifice, Mourning, and Reparation: Käthe Kollwitz

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 107-122

    3. Beyond the Imaginary Mother-Father: H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 123-135

    4. Misogyny and Dissolution: Anne Hébert’s Les Fous de Bassan

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 136-144

    5. Dislocating the Maternal Metaphor: Thérèse Oulton

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 145-153

  5. Towards an Aesthetics of Lessness: Resisting the Imaginary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Proustian Cryptanalysis

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 157-174

    3. Beckett’s Unnamable

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 175-195

    4. Beckett, Gidal and Lessness

      • Angela Moorjani
      Pages 196-208

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 209-241
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness

  • Authors: Angela Moorjani

  • Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21813-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-06827-1Published: 11 January 1992

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21813-4Published: 12 January 1992

  • Series ISSN: 2947-0188

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 241

  • Topics: Aesthetics

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