Ethics And Aesthetics In European Modernist Literature
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Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature
Author | : David Ellison |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001-09-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139430845 |
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David Ellison's book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism. Ellison's study traces the origins of Modernism to the emergence of early German Romanticism from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and emphasizes how the passage from Romanticism to Modernism can be followed in the gradual transition from the sublime to the uncanny. Arguing that what we call High Modernism cannot be reduced to a religion of beauty, an experimentation with narrative form, or even a reflection on time and consciousness, Ellison demonstrates that Modernist textuality is characterized by the intersection, overlapping, and crossing of aesthetic and ethical issues. Beauty and morality relate to each other as antagonists struggling for dominance within the related fields of philosophy and theory on the one hand (Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud) and imaginative literature on the other (Baudelaire, Proust, Gide, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka).
Ethics and aesthetics in European modernist literature
Author | : David Richard Ellison |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Aesthetics in literature |
ISBN | : OCLC:848732918 |
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Modernism and Morality
Author | : M. Halliwell |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001-09-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780230502734 |
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Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.
Travel and Modernist Literature
Author | : Alexandra Peat |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136911811 |
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Through close readings of works from Henry James to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation, displacement, and exile) as models for their own journeys. Specifically, Peat considers the ethical dimensions of modernist travel from two distinct vantages. The first focuses on the relationship between the secular and the sacred in modernist travel literature, arguing that the recurrent narrative of secular travel is haunted by a desire for spiritual transcendence. The second posits modernist travel fiction as a potentially positive example of transcultural relations, consciously arguing against the received notion that travel during an imperial era is always by nature itself imperialist. Throughout, particular attention is paid to the transnational nature of modernism and the various global flows traced by modernist literature.
Monotheism Ethics
Author | : Y. Tzvi Langermann |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004217416 |
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Fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the world explore the theological, philosophical, and historical connections between the three Abrahamic faiths and ethics. Timely reading for students of religion, philosophy, and ethics.
Virginia Woolf Europe and Peace
Author | : Peter Adkins,Derek Ryan |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2020-07-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781949979381 |
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This volume asks how Woolf conceptualized peace by exploring various experimental forms she created in response to violence and crisis. Across fifteen chapters written by an international array of scholars, this book draws out theoretical dimensions of Woolf’s aesthetics and deepens our understanding of her writing about war, ethics, feminism and European culture.
The Strange M Proust
Author | : Andre Benhaim |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781351540308 |
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The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of A la Recherche du Temps perdu - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary miniatures, his orderly structure where every law is subverted, his chronology where time can be undone and his geography where places can superimpose: in these, and many other ways, Proust continues to astonish even readers who have engaged with him for their entire careers. In this book, arising from the Princeton symposium of 2006, major critics come together to offer provocative readings of a work which is at the same time classical and unusual, French and foreign, familiar and strange. The book is dedicated to the memory of Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007), whose keynote address was one of his last major lectures. Other contributors include David Ellison, Anne Simon, Eugene Nicole, Joseph Brami, Raymonde Coudert, Christie McDonald, Michael Wood and Antoine Compagnon.
Modernism s Other Work
Author | : Lisa Siraganian |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780190255268 |
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Modernism's Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning-in particular the political meaning-of modernism's commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, and film, it argues that modernism's core aesthetic problem-the artwork's status as an object, and a subject's relation to it-poses fundamental questions of agency, freedom, and politics. With fresh accounts of works by canonical figures such as William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp, and transformative readings of less-studied writers such as William Gaddis and Amiri Baraka, Siraganian reinterprets the relationship between aesthetic autonomy and politics. Through attentive readings, the study reveals how political questions have always been modernism's critical work, even when writers such as Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis boldly assert the art object's immunity from the world's interpretations. Reorienting our understanding of the period, Siraganian demonstrates that the freedom of the art object from the reader's meaning presented a way to imagine an individual's complicated liberty within the state. Offering readers an original encounter with modernism, Modernism's Other Work will interest literary and art historians, literary theorists, critics, and scholars in cultural studies.