Image in Outline : Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé

English

Series: New Directions in German Studies

ISBN: 1441199756

EAN: 9781441199751

Category: Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited

Release Date: 08/01/2012

Synopsis: This new study introduces the reader into Lou Andreas-Salom?s critical and creative engagement with modern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her major texts, Brinker-Gabler examines Andreas-Salom?s unique perspective within contemporary discourses attentive to meaning, perception, memory and the unconscious. Making use of conceptual frameworks of Irigaray and Benjamin, Freud and Kristeva, among others, Brinker-Gabler argues that Andreas-Salome displaces dominant visions of gender and sexuality, culture, religion, and creativity with multifaceted revisions through the female lens of a creative thinker. With her aesthetics of the in-visible, as Brinker-Gabler calls it, Andreas-Salom? seeks to retrieve the multilayered past that is embedded in the present and to give positive accounts of sexual and cultural difference, experience, narcissism, and becoming.

Image in Outline : Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.35 inches

Width: 5.43 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 12.84 oz

Pages: 160