The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics

Author:   Thomas Albrecht
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438428673


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   23 December 2009
Format:   Hardback
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The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics


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This title examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism and philosophy.

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Author:   Thomas Albrecht
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781438428673


ISBN 10:   1438428677
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   23 December 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: The Medusa Effect 1. Apotropaic Reading: Freud's Medusenhaupt 2. A ""Monstrous"" Opposition: The Double Dionysus and the Double Apollo in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy 3. Two Impressions of Medusa: Walter Pater and A. C. Swinburne 4. Sympathy and Telepathy: Th e Problem of Ethics in George Eliot's The Lifted Veil Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index"

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...an elegant study in rhetorical analysis. - Victorian Studies Thomas Albrecht brings a radically different approach to aesthetics-psychoanalytic and poststructuralist rather than historicist-in The Medusa Effect. - Studies in English Literature


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Thomas Albrecht is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and the editor (with Georgia Albert and Elizabeth Rottenberg) of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman.

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