Title Ethics and aesthetics in European modernist literature : from the sublime to the uncanny / David Ellison

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description xiv, 290 pages ; 24 cm Contents Pt. 1. Kant, Romantic Irony, Unheimlichkeit -- 1. Border crossings in Kant -- 2. Kierkegaard: on the economics of living poetically -- 3. Freud's "Das Unheimliche": the intricacies of textual uncanniness -- Pt. 2. The Romantic Heritage and Modernist Fiction -- 4. Aesthetic redemption: the thyrsus in Nietzsche, Baudelaire, and Wagner -- 5. The "beautiful soul": Alan-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes and the aesthetics of Romanticism -- 6. Proust and Kafka: uncanny narrative openings -- 7. Textualizing immoralism: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Gide's L'Immoraliste -- 8. Fishing the waters of impersonality: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse -- Epilogue: Narrative and music in Kafka and Blanchot: the "singing" of Josefine Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index Subject Modernism (Literature) Aesthetics in literature. Modernism (Literature) -- Europe. Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Ethics in literature. Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. LC no. 2001025769 ISBN 0521806801

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