{"product_id":"ethics-and-aesthetics-in-european-modernist-literature-from-the-sublime-to-the-uncanny-paperback-9780521025164","title":"Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature; From the Sublime to the Uncanny (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521025164","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEthics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom the Sublime to the Uncanny\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Ellison's book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Ellison (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521025164, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 March 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.456 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a collection of excellent deconstructive close readings in European philosophy and literaure.\"   The Wordsworth Circle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDavid Ellison's book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism. Ellison's study traces the origins of Modernism to the emergence of early German Romanticism from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and emphasizes how the passage from Romanticism to Modernism can be followed in the gradual transition from the sublime to the uncanny. Arguing that what we call High Modernism cannot be reduced to a religion of beauty, an experimentation with narrative form, or even a reflection on time and consciousness, Ellison demonstrates that Modernist textuality is characterized by the intersection, overlapping, and crossing of aesthetic and ethical issues. Beauty and morality relate to each other as antagonists struggling for dominance within the related fields of philosophy and theory on the one hand (Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud) and imaginative literature on the other (Baudelaire, Proust, Gide, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka).\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Kant, Romantic Irony, Unheimlichkeit: 1. Border crossings in Kant\u003cbr\u003e 2. Kierkegaard on the economics of living poetically\u003cbr\u003e 3. Freud's 'Das Unheimliche': the intricacies of textual uncanniness\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Romantic Heritage and Modernist Fiction: 4. Aesthetic redemption: the Thyrsus in Nietzsche, Baudelaire, and Wagner\u003cbr\u003e 5. The 'beautiful soul': Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes and the aesthetics of Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Proust and Kafka: uncanny narrative openings\u003cbr\u003e 7. Textualizing immoralism: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Gide's L'Immoraliste\u003cbr\u003e 8. Fishing the waters of impersonality: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: narrative and music in Kafka and Blanchot: the 'singing' of Josefine\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy: aesthetics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy: aesthetics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy:%20aesthetics%20%5BHPN%5D%22\"\u003eHPN\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005246820632,"sku":"9780521025164","price":29.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521025164i_7a91fe19-aecd-4327-bff9-286c1c290143.jpg?v=1694964626","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ethics-and-aesthetics-in-european-modernist-literature-from-the-sublime-to-the-uncanny-paperback-9780521025164","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}