Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria / / Martina Kolb.

The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe's major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international aut...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2013
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:German and European Studies
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
Preface: Ligurian Geopoetics --
I. 'Twixt Halcyon and Marathon: Azure Spell and Difficult Beauty --
Riviera Existence --
On the Ligurian Edge --
Luring Onomastics --
II. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn: A Ligurian Complex --
Copious Dawns, High Noons, Blessed Isles: Nietzsche's Ligurianity --
Guilt Trips on Royal Roads: Freud's Ligurian Affinities --
Blind Spots, Alibis, Sceneries: Benn's Ligurian Complexes --
Postface: Liguria Rediviva --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe's major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors and artists. In this study, Martina Kolb traces Liguria's specific impact on the works of three seminal German-writing modernists - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn - whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and world.Kolb examines each of these authors' acquired affinities with Ligurian and Provençal landscapes and seascapes, revisiting and reassessing the long tradition of northern longing for a Mediterranean south. She also shows how Freud and Benn followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche in his most prolific years, a topic which has received little critical attention to date. 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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781442695825
9783110667691
9783110490954
DOI:10.3138/9781442695825
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Martina Kolb.