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Spoiled distinctions : aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism /

'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freed-Thall, Hannah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ordinary, Everyday, Quelconque; Aesthetic Indistinction; Beauty's Afterlives; Road Map; Part 1 Aesthetic Disorientation in Proust; 1. Prestige; Synthetic Diamonds; Proust's Newspaper; Pastiche; 2. Babble; "Zut, zut, zut, zut"; "Little patch of yellow wall"; "I began to sing my head off"; "Bah!"; "O sole mio"; 3. Nuance; Too Close; Dégradation; Part 2 Mid-Century Experiments; 4. Profanation in Ponge; Awkward; "As such, nothing more"; 5. Sarraute's Bad Taste; "It's beautiful, don't you think?"; Inestimable Objects; Too Sweet; Afterword; Notes.