Spoiled distinctions : aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism

Spoiled distinctions : aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism / Hannah Freed-Thall.

'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading an...

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Main Author: Freed-Thall, Hannah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1900-1999
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > France.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > France.
Life in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
French literature
Life in literature
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Literature)
Fransk litteratur > historia.
Modernism (litteratur)
Modernism.
France
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ordinary, Everyday, Quelconque; Aesthetic Indistinction; Beauty's Afterlives; Road Map; Part 1 Aesthetic Disorientation in Proust; 1. Prestige; Synthetic Diamonds; Proust's Newspaper; Pastiche; 2. Babble; "Zut, zut, zut, zut"; "Little patch of yellow wall"; "I began to sing my head off"; "Bah!"; "O sole mio"; 3. Nuance; Too Close; Dégradation; Part 2 Mid-Century Experiments; 4. Profanation in Ponge; Awkward; "As such, nothing more"; 5. Sarraute's Bad Taste; "It's beautiful, don't you think?"; Inestimable Objects; Too Sweet; Afterword; Notes.

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