| Description |
179 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Theory, culture & society |
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Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Introduction / Bryan S. Turner -- Pt. 1. An Archaeology of Modernity: Angelus Novus. 1. Angelic Space: Angelus Novus, an Overwhelming Picture. 2. Baroque Space: Trauerspiel: Allegory as Origin. 3. Baudelairean Space: A Modern Baroque. 4. The Space of Writing: The Angel and the 'Scene' of Writing: In the 'Primeval Forest' (Urwald) -- Pt. 2. The Utopia of the Feminine: Benjamin's Trajectory 2. 5. Catastrophist Utopia: The Feminine as Allegory of Modernity. 6. Anthropological Utopia, or The 'Heroines' of Modernity. 7. Transgressive Utopia: 'Image Frontiers' of Writing and History -- 8. Appendix: Viennese Figures of Otherness: Femininity and Jewishness -- Pt. 3. Baroque Reason. 9. An Aesthetics of Otherness. 10. Salome, or The Baroque Scenography of Desire. 11. The Stage of the Modern and the Look of Medusa |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
| Notes |
Translation of: La raison baroque |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: La raison baroque |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Women in literature.
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| LC no. |
93086832 |
| ISBN |
080398975X |
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0803989768 (paperback) |
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