TY - BOOK ID - 77923714 TI - Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria PY - 2019 SN - 144269582X 9781442695825 9781442643291 1442643293 1442695838 PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - German literature KW - Geography in literature. KW - Geographical perception in literature. KW - Displacement (Psychology) in literature. KW - Topography in literature KW - Themes, motives. KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, KW - Freud, Sigmund, KW - Benn, Gottfried, KW - Freud, Sigmund KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich KW - Nietzsche, Friederich KW - Homes and haunts. KW - Liguria (Italy) KW - Liguria KW - Regione Liguria (Italy) KW - In literature. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Benn, Gottfried KW - Déplacement (Psychologie) dans la littérature. KW - Geografi i litteraturen. KW - Géographie dans la littérature. KW - Homes. KW - Ligurie (Italie) dans la littérature. KW - Ligurien KW - Literature. KW - Littérature allemande KW - Perception géographique dans la littérature. KW - Rezeption. KW - Tysk litteratur. KW - Thèmes, motifs. KW - Benn, Gottfried. KW - Freud, Sigmund. KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich, KW - Résidences et lieux familiers KW - Italien KW - Italy KW - Ligurie (Italie) KW - Ligurien. KW - I litteraturen KW - Vie intellectuelle. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77923714 AB - 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."--Pub. desc. "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 ER -