Ethics and aesthetics in European modernist literature: from the sublime to the uncanny
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Main Author: Ellison, David R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; PART I Kant, Romantic irony, Unheimlichkeit; PART II The Romantic heritage and Modernist fiction; EPILOGUE Narrative and music in Kafka and Blanchot: the singingŽ of Josefine; Notes; Works cited; Index
Ellison's book is an ambitious presentation of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of Modernist literature. Ellison brings together philosophical, theoretical, and literary texts ranging over a century and a half of intellectual history. He shows, through close readings, how the struggle between aesthetic and ethical issues characterises each of them
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 290 pages)
ISBN:0511013612
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