David Ellison's book is an ambitious presentation of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of Modernist literature. The author brings together philosophical, theoretical, and literary texts ranging over a century and a half of intellectual history--from Kant and Kierkegaard to Freud and Woolf. His study reveals how the struggle between aesthetic and ethical issues characterizes each of them. He combines the insights of philosophical conceptualization, narratology, and psychoanalytic theory to illuminate the historical passage from the sublime to the uncanny during the 150-year period between 1790-1940.
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"Ellison's book makes our experience of modernist writers and texts and more subtle while also futhering an arresting argument about philosophical shifts during this literary-historical moment. Perhaps most importantly, it `infects' us with the author's delight in both aesthetic enjoyment and art's unique mode of ethical inquiry." Modernism
"[a] worthy contribution to the ethics and politics of literary Modernism." Woolf Studies Annual
"...a collection of excellent deconstructive close readings in European philosophy and literaure." The Wordsworth Circle
"[a] worthy contribution to the ethics and politics of literary Modernism." Woolf Studies Annual
"...a collection of excellent deconstructive close readings in European philosophy and literaure." The Wordsworth Circle
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David Ellison's book is an ambitious presentation of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of Modernist literature. Ellison brings together philosophical, theoretical, and literary texts ranging over a century and a half of intellectual history (from Kant and Kierkegaard to Freud and Woolf). He shows, through close readings, how the struggle between aesthetic and ethical issues characterises each of them. He combines the insights of philosophical conceptualisation, narratology, and psychoanalytic t heory in order to illuminate the historical passage from the sublime to the uncanny during this 150-year period (1790-1940).
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If Hegel is the thinker of overcomings and supersession whereby dialectical negation erases the boundaries between inside and outside, self and other in the synthetic unity of consciousness, Kant is the tracer of borders and limits, the thought-surveyor par excellence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
attentive young girls, mouse folk, voix narratrice, exterior narrator, voix narrative, madeleine episode, das unheimliche, narrative framing, misty halos, romantic irony, aesthetic redemption, beautiful soul, intellectual uncertainty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Der Sandmann, Virginia Woolf, The Birth of Tragedy, Critique of Practical Reason, Don Juan, Richard Wagner, The Concept of Irony, Das Urteil, Wilhelm Meister, Mysterious Domain, Third Critique, Victor Eremita, Lily Briscoe, Franz Liszt, Yvonne de Galais, Critique of Pure Reason, The Case of Wagner, Don Giovanni, First Critique, Inner Station, New Testament, Phenomenology of Spirit, Second Critique, Soren Kierkegaard, Twilight of the Idols New!
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If Hegel is the thinker of overcomings and supersession whereby dialectical negation erases the boundaries between inside and outside, self and other in the synthetic unity of consciousness, Kant is the tracer of borders and limits, the thought-surveyor par excellence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
attentive young girls, mouse folk, voix narratrice, exterior narrator, voix narrative, madeleine episode, das unheimliche, narrative framing, misty halos, romantic irony, aesthetic redemption, beautiful soul, intellectual uncertainty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Der Sandmann, Virginia Woolf, The Birth of Tragedy, Critique of Practical Reason, Don Juan, Richard Wagner, The Concept of Irony, Das Urteil, Wilhelm Meister, Mysterious Domain, Third Critique, Victor Eremita, Lily Briscoe, Franz Liszt, Yvonne de Galais, Critique of Pure Reason, The Case of Wagner, Don Giovanni, First Critique, Inner Station, New Testament, Phenomenology of Spirit, Second Critique, Soren Kierkegaard, Twilight of the Idols New!
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