David R. Ellison

Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature

From the Sublime to the Uncanny

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Produktbeschreibung

David Ellison's book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780521806800
• ISBN-10: 0521806801
• Artikelnr.: 29337319

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Kant, Romantic Irony, Unheimlichkeit: 1. Border crossings in Kant
2. Kierkegaard on the economics of living poetically
3. Freud's 'Das Unheimliche': the intricacies of textual uncanniness
Part II. The Romantic Heritage and Modernist Fiction: 4. Aesthetic redemption: the Thyrsus in Nietzsche, Baudelaire, and Wagner
5. The 'beautiful soul': Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes and the aesthetics of Romanticism
6. Proust and Kafka: uncanny narrative openings
7. Textualizing immoralism: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Gide's L'Immoraliste
8. Fishing the waters of impersonality: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Epilogue: narrative and music in Kafka and Blanchot: the 'singing' of Josefine
Notes
Index.