The work of difference : modernism, romanticism, and the production of literary form

The work of difference : modernism, romanticism, and the production of literary form / Audrey Wasser.

"This book mounts a critique of persistently romantic assumptions in contemporary literary criticism and advances an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels of Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wasser, Audrey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Criticism.
Literary form.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism
Literary form
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Form and Fragmentation: Romantic Legacies
  • The Book of the World: Form and Intent in New Criticism, Revisited
  • Tyranny of the Possible: Blanchot
  • A Genesis of the New: Deleuze
  • From Figure to Fissure: Self-Correction in Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable
  • Hyperbole In Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
  • "How Anything Can Be Different from What It Is": Tautology in Stein's The Making of Americans
  • Conclusion.

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