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Ethics and aesthetics in European modernist literature : from the sublime to the uncanny

By Ellison , David R

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0-521-80680-1, 9780521806800, 9780511013614, 0511013612, 9780511044328, 0511044321, 9780511119781, 051111978X, 9780511154522, 0511154526, 9780511485749, 0511485743, 9781280154942, 1280154942
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1944247 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
290\304
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
LiteratureModern -- 19th century -- History and criticism. MModern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. L

Description

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

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