Aesthetic Afterlives Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty.
Since the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are integral to modern literary practice. Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter P...
| Основен автор: | Eastham, Andrew. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London :
Continuum International Pub.,
2011.
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| Серия: |
Continuum literary studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=399746 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Aesthetic Afterlives : Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty. |
| Резюме: |
Since the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are integral to modern literary practice. Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter Pater and Henry James to Samuel Beckett and Alan Hollinghurst, this study investigates the dialectical position of irony in Aestheticism and its twentieth-century afterlives. Aesthetic Afterlives constructs a far-reaching theoretical narrative by positioning Victorian Aestheticism as the basis of Lite. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (273 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781441130013 1441130012 1283307677 9781283307673 |