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Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
352Overview
Lisi traces an alternative aesthetics of dependency that provides a different formal structure, philosophical foundation, and historical condition for modernist texts. Taking Europe's Scandinavian periphery as his point of departure, Lisi examines how Søren Kierkegaard and Henrik Ibsen imagined a response to the changing conditions of modernity different from those at the European core, one that subsequently influenced Henry James, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, and James Joyce.
Combining close readings with a broader revision of the nature and genealogy of modernism, Marginal Modernity challenges what we understand by modernist aesthetics, their origins, and their implications for how we conceive of our relation to the modern world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780823245321 |
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Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
Publication date: | 12/10/2012 |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Citations xiii
Introduction: The Aesthetics of Modernism 1
Part 1 Philosophical Foundations
1 Presuppositions and Varieties of Aesthetic Experience 23
Part 2 Aesthetic Forms at the Scandinavian Periphery
2 John Ludvig Heiberg and the Autonomy of Art 57
3 Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt 87
4 Nora's Departure and the Aesthetics of Dependency 117
Part 3 Modernism and Dependency
5 Henry James and the Emergence of the Major Phase 169
6 Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Language of the Future 204
7 Conflict and Mediation in James Joyce's "The Dead" 220
8 Intransitive Love in Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 247
Conclusion 269
Notes 273
Bibliography 301
Index 331