Modernism and Coherence - Four Chapters of a Negative Aesthetics (Paperback, New edition)

Modernism and Coherence is an attempt to develop a negative aesthetics conceived as determinate resistance of artworks against the meaning assigned to them by criticism. From the accumulation of arguments on great texts of modernism, the book describes gestures of refusal that generate figures of negativity: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory becomes a whirlpool revolving around a center refusing predication; Wallace Stevens' poetry exhibits a phonetic escape valve against the pressure of reality; Robert Frost writes a poem that is ahead of you in both senses of the expression; and James Joyce's Ulysses reads its readers in waves of self-folding. This book is an effort to salvage literature as something in itself in a world that increasingly can only see what is for the other.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Fabio Akcelrud Durao
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	158
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-56949-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	3-631-56949-1
Barcode:	9783631569498

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