In the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and
subjective consciousness, as well as the world and art depicting
them, emerged from this formless chaos. In fantasy, we seek to
return to this original darkness. Particularly in literature,
visual representations, and film, the night resiliently resurfaces
from the margins of the knowable, acting as a stage and state of
mind in which exceptional perceptions, discoveries, and decisions
play out.
Elisabeth Bronfen investigates the nocturnal spaces in which
extraordinary events unfold, and casts a critical eye into the
darkness that enables the irrational exploration of desire,
transformation, ecstasy, transgression, spiritual illumination, and
moral choice. She begins with an analysis of classical myths
depicting the creation of the world and then moves through night
scenes in Shakespeare and Milton, Gothic novels and novellas,
Hegel's romantic philosophy, and Freud's psychoanalysis. Bronfen
also demonstrates how modern works of literature and film,
particularly film noir, can convey that piece of night the modern
subject carries within. From Mozart's "Queen of the Night" to
Virginia Woolf 's oscillation between day and night, life and
death, and chaos and aesthetic form, Bronfen renders something
visible, conceivable, and comprehensible from the dark realms of
the unknown.
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