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Aesthetic Afterlives : Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty.
Since the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are integral to modern literary practice. Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter P...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub.,
2011.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Walter Pater's Acoustic Space: 'The School of Giorgione', Dionysian Anders- streben and the Politics of Soundscape; Chapter 2 Aesthetic Vampirism: The Concept of Irony in the Work of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and Vernon Lee; Chapter 3 'Master of Irony': Henry James, Transatlantic Bildung and the Critique of Aestheticism; Chapter 4 Irony's Turn: The Redress of Aestheticism in Katherine Mansfield's Notebooks and Stories.
- Chapter 5 Sacrificing Aestheticism: The Dialectic of Modernity and the Ends of Beauty in D.H. Lawrence'sChapter 6 Aristocracies of Mourning: The Reconsecration of Aestheticism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited; Chapter 7 Sublime Ironies: The Remainders of Romanticism in Samuel Beckett's; Chapter 8 Inoperative Ironies:Jamesian Aestheticism and Postmodern Culture in Alan Hollinghurst's; Chapter 9 The Aesthetic Afterlives of Mr W.P.: Reanimating Pater in Twenty- first-Century Fiction; Notes; Works Cited; Index.