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Fictions of autonomy : modernism from Wilde to de Man /
'Fictions of Autonomy' presents a revisionary account of aesthetic autonomy and transnational modernism with a range of readings that includes works by Wilde, Eliot, Joyce, Barnes, and Stevens alongside writings by theorists like Adorno and de Man.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Modernist literature & culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- An institutional approach
- Aesthetic autonomy in practice and philosophy
- The fictions of autonomy and their themes
- Modernist studies and the expanded field
- Autonomy from labor: in service to art for art's sake from Wilde to Prouse
- Aesthetic autonomy? Our servants will do that for us
- Wilde: the truth of masks with manners
- Huysmans: the decadent master-servant dialectic
- Henry James: the subtlety of service
- Proust: service in the magic circle
- Aestheticist self-consciousness
- Autonomy from the person: impersonality and lateness in Eliot and Adorno
- Adorno's theory of impersonality
- Eliot's late style, 1910-58
- Four Quarters and musical lateness
- The late style and the intentional fallacy
- Expatriation as autonomy: Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, and aesthetic cosmopolitanism
- Nightwood: the luminous deterioration of cosmopolitanism
- French nights and the artist's lifestyle
- Wandering Jews, wandering Americans
- "Vagaries Malicieux": losing all connection at the Deux Magots
- Stephen Dedalus's hat
- Literature without external reference: tautology in Wallace Stevens and Paul de Man
- The aesthete is the aesthete
- The academy of fine ideas: Stevens and de Man in the University
- De Man, modernism, and the correspondence theory
- The sound of autonomy
- The plain sense of tautology
- Epilogue: autonomy now
- Autonomy, literary study, and knowledge production
- Autonomy abroad: proliferation on the world stage
- The truth about fictions of autonomy.