ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN EUROPEAN MODERNIST LITERATURE by Ellison, David R ISBN 0521806801
From Student Book World
|
[edit] ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN EUROPEAN MODERNIST LITERATURE
An investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism.
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).
[edit] Book Details
[edit] Title
ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN EUROPEAN MODERNIST LITERATURE
[edit] Author
Ellison, David R
[edit] ISBN
0521806801
[edit] Published
27/09/2001
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
42.5 (GBP)
[edit] Typical Price Online
41.65 (GBP)
[edit] Buy Book Online
If you wish to purchase ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN EUROPEAN MODERNIST LITERATURE, written by Ellison, David R and published by Cambridge University Press on 27/09/2001 then we have listed a few select online book retailers who can provide good value and service.
| ISBN 0521806801 |
|---|
Template:Section270
