Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature
From the Sublime to the Uncanny
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- Author: David Ellison, University of Miami
- Date Published: March 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025164
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David Ellison's book is an ambitious presentation of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of Modernist literature. The author brings together philosophical, theoretical, and literary texts ranging over a century and a half of intellectual history--from Kant and Kierkegaard to Freud and Woolf. His study reveals how the struggle between aesthetic and ethical issues characterizes each of them. He combines the insights of philosophical conceptualization, narratology, and psychoanalytic theory to illuminate the historical passage from the sublime to the uncanny during the 150-year period between 1790-1940.
Read more- Ambitious study of a wide range of influential authors, including novelists and philosophers
- Ellison develops his argument through close readings of a broad scope of texts
- Of interest to specialists in Kant, Proust, Kafka, Conrad and Woolf, among others
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"Ellison's book makes our experience of modernist writers and texts and more subtle while also futhering an arresting argument about philosophical shifts during this literary-historical moment. Perhaps most importantly, it `infects' us with the author's delight in both aesthetic enjoyment and art's unique mode of ethical inquiry." Modernism
See more reviews"[a] worthy contribution to the ethics and politics of literary Modernism." Woolf Studies Annual
"...a collection of excellent deconstructive close readings in European philosophy and literaure." The Wordsworth Circle
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- Date Published: March 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025164
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.456kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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