Beyond The Paradox Of The Nostalgic Modernist
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Beyond The Paradox Of The Nostalgic Modernist
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Author : Elisabeth M. Donato
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Beyond The Paradox Of The Nostalgic Modernist written by Elisabeth M. Donato and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This investigation of J.-K. Huysmans' representation of temporality sheds light on the complex and paradoxical nature of this late-nineteenth-century novelist and art critic, who was a modernist steeped in nostalgia as well as a nostalgic steeped in modernity. To unveil and understand the mechanisms and logic of this paradox, Elisabeth M. Donato examines Huysmans' characters' dealings with measured time and schedules, investigates the failure of des Esseintes' aesthetic experiment, and relates the novelist's construct of «spiritualist naturalism» to his increasingly frequent and intense longings for his own medieval utopia. Donato's new perspective onto the intricate relationship between modernity and nostalgia underscores Huysmans' firm and very modern stance à rebours of commonality in his never ending search for a solution to his dilemma.
Immediacy And Meaning
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Author : Caitlin Smith Gilson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-02-09
Immediacy And Meaning written by Caitlin Smith Gilson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-09 with Philosophy categories.
Immediacy and Meaning seeks to approach the odd uneasiness at root in all metaphysical meaning; that the human knower attempts to mediate what cannot be mediated; that there is a pre-cognitive immemorial immediacy to Being that renders its participants irreducible, incommunicable and personal. The dilemma of metaphysics rests on the relationship between the spectator and the player, both as essential responses to the immediacy of Being. Immediacy and Meaning is an attempt to pause, but without retreat, to be a spectator within the game, to gain access into this immediate Presence, for a moment only perhaps, before the signatory failure into metaphysical language returns us to the mediated. J. K. Huysman's semi-autobiographical tetralogy anchors this book as a meditation, neither purely poetic nor only philosophical; it claims a unique territory when attempting to speak what cannot be spoken. The unnerving merits of nominalism, the difficulties of an honest appraisal of efficacious prayer, the mad sanity of the muse, the relationship between the uncreated and the created, and an originary ethics of antagonism, each serves to clarify the formation of a new epistemology.
French Xx Bibliography
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Author : William J. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2006-09
French Xx Bibliography written by William J. Thompson and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides a listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This work is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema.
Forthcoming Books
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Author : Rose Arny
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with American literature categories.
Reference Guide To World Literature
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Author : Tom Pendergast
language : en
Publisher: Saint James Press
Release Date : 2003
Reference Guide To World Literature written by Tom Pendergast and has been published by Saint James Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
Covers writers from the ancient Greeks to 20th-century authors. Includes biographical-bibliographical entries on nearly 500 writers and approximately 550 entries focusing on significant works of world literature. Each author entry provides a detailed overview of the writer's life and works. Work entries cover a particular piece of world literature in detail.
Modernity For The Masses
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Author : Ana María León
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2021-03-16
Modernity For The Masses written by Ana María León and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Architecture categories.
Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Might housing serve as a tool to discipline their behavior? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows Bonet's decades-long, state-backed quest to house Buenos Aires's diverse and fractious population. Working with totalitarian and populist regimes, Bonet developed three large-scale housing plans, each scuttled as a new government took over. Yet these incomplete plans—Bonet's dreams—teach us much about the relationship between modernism and state power. Modernity for the Masses finds in Bonet's projects the disconnect between modern architecture’s discourse of emancipation and the reality of its rationalizing control. Although he and his patrons constantly glorified the people and depicted them in housing plans, Bonet never consulted them. Instead he succumbed to official and elite fears of the people's latent political power. In careful readings of Bonet's work, León discovers the progressive erasure of surrealism's psychological sensitivity, replaced with an impulse, realized in modernist design, to contain the increasingly empowered population.
Left In The Past
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Author : Alastair Bonnett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-05-06
Left In The Past written by Alastair Bonnett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-06 with Political Science categories.
This book looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left. In "Left in the Past", Bonnett re-assesses the place of nostalgia within radical politics and, in doing so, provides a new introduction to the history and politics of the left. Bonnett argues that nostalgia has been a chronic, but repressed, aspect of the socialist imagination. "Left in the Past" is premised on the idea that, in our 'post-socialist era', the relationship between radicalism and a sense of loss, and the ambivalent position of socialism in and against modernity, can be viewed with greater clarity. In Section One of the book, Bonnett shows the centrality and repression of nostalgia in both 19th-century radicalism and anti-colonial radicalism. In Section Two, he explores the consequences of this inheritance by way of 20th century and contemporary studies of revolutionary intellectuals and intellectual culture. Bonnett's unique approach in how to understand the left in an age of post-socialism will make book a needed resource for anyone interested in the history and politics of the left and radicalism.
American Doctoral Dissertations
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
American Doctoral Dissertations written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Dissertation abstracts categories.
Surrealism Beyond Borders
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Author : Stephanie D'Alessandro
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2021-10-04
Surrealism Beyond Borders written by Stephanie D'Alessandro and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-04 with Art categories.
Surrealism Beyond Borders challenges conventional narratives of a revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement. Tracing Surrealism's influence and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as geographically diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey, this publication includes more than 300 works of art in a variety of media by well-known figures—including Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, and Miró—as well as numerous artists who are less widely known. Contributions from more than forty distinguished international scholars explore the network of Surrealist exchange and collaboration, artists' responses to the challenges of social and political unrest, and the experience of displacement and exile in the twentieth century. The multiple narratives addressed in this expansive book move beyond the borders of history, geography, and nationality to provocatively redraw the map of Surrealism.
The Five Paradoxes Of Modernity
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Author : Antoine Compagnon
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1994
The Five Paradoxes Of Modernity written by Antoine Compagnon and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art, Modern categories.
In this elegant, highly readable book, Compagnon confronts the postmodern's co-optation of the modern by tracing paradoxical elements in the aesthetic of the new - particularly the aesthetic and moral contradictions built into the enthusiasm for the new - in the "five paradoxes of modernity": the superstition of the new, the religion of the future, the mania for theory, the appeal to mass culture, and the passion for repudiation.