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Moorjani, Angela was born on May 20, 1941 in Dresden, Germany. Daughter of Johann and Marianne (Arras) Bickel. came to the United States, 1951.
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Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness (Language, Discourse, Society)
( This text probes the psychic and social roots of artist...)
This text probes the psychic and social roots of artistic scenarios of loss. Demonstrating that artistic activity is inextricably bonded to imaginary scripts of bereavement and these in turn to patterns of social dominance, the author argues in favor of an "aesthetics of lessness" that is, postmodern resistance to imaginary inscriptions of grief and their misogynist sequels. The book draws on psychoaesthetics, discourse theory and feminist social critiques to analyse literary visual figurations of loss. Included in its analysis of the romantic and post-romantic imaginary are readings of Merimee, Nerval, Hoffmann, H.D., Anne Hebert, Proust and Beckett, and essays, among others, on Kollwitz, Glacometti, Bellmer, Klee, Gidal and Oulton.
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Angela Moorjani
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Angela Moorjani, German, American Foreign languages educator. Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1963; recipient Gilbert Chinard Pedagogical prize Institute Français de Washington, 1982. Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers French, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Semiotic Society American, Samuel Beckett Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor in French, U. Maryland., 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in Romance Langs., Johns Hopkins University, 1969.
Career
Associate vice president for academic affairs, U. Maryland., Baltimore, 1991-1993; from assistant to associate professor, U. Maryland., 1969-1991; professor modern languages and linguistics, U. Maryland., since 1991; chair department modern languages and linguistics, U. Maryland., 1986-1988, 96-. Chair Baltimore Graduate Consortium in Foreign Langs. and Linguistics, 1987-1988;consultant National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, 1979-1988.
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Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness (Language, Discourse, Society)
( This text probes the psychic and social roots of artist...)
- The Aesthetics of Loss and Lessness
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Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness (Language, Discourse, Society)
Membership
Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1963. Recipient Gilbert Chinard Pedagogical prize Institute Français de Washington, 1982. Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers French, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Semiotic Society American, Samuel Beckett Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Kishin Moorjani, December 22, 1962.
