Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
Leonardo F. Lisi
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Description for Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
Hardback. Challenges what we understand by modernist aesthetics, their origins, and their implications for how we conceive our relation to the modern world Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, practiced by the avant-gardes. In this revisionary study, Leonardo Lisi argues that these models rest on assumptions about the nature of truth and existence that cannot be treated as exhaustive of modernist form.
Lisi traces an alternative aesthetics of dependency that provides a different formal structure, philosophical foundation, and historical condition for modernist texts. Taking Europe's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823245321
SKU
V9780823245321
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About Leonardo F. Lisi
Leonardo F. Lisi is Assistant Professor in the Humanities Center at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce (Fordham).
Reviews for Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
"Leonardo Lisi's study is exemplary in that it demonstrates a rare mastery of the diverse areas of research his study intervenes in. He situates his readings in relation to what he sketches as major tendencies of recent scholarship and all of his individual readings are innovative, stringent and of exceptionally high quality."
-Johnannes Turk Indiana University, Bloomington "...a superb ... Read more
-Johnannes Turk Indiana University, Bloomington "...a superb ... Read more