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The work of difference : modernism, romanticism, and the production of literary form / Audrey Wasser.
Author
Wasser, Audrey
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Description
1 online resource
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Modernism (Literature)
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Criticism
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"This book mounts a critique of persistently romantic assumptions in contemporary literary criticism and advances an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels of Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein"-- Provided by publisher.
"The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns first articulated in early German romanticism, this book goes on to mount a critique of romantic tendencies in contemporary criticism in order, ultimately, to develop an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
Introduction
Form and Fragmentation: Romantic Legacies
The Book of the World: Form and Intent in New Criticism, Revisited
Tyranny of the Possible: Blanchot
A Genesis of the New: Deleuze
From Figure to Fissure: Self-Correction in Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable
Hyperbole In Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
"How Anything Can Be Different from What It Is": Tautology in Stein's The Making of Americans
Conclusion.
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ISBN
9780823270101 ((electronic bk.))
0823270106 ((electronic bk.))
9780823270071 ((electronic bk.))
0823270076 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
939195516
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