The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form - Hardcover

Wasser, Audrey

 
9780823270057: The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
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ISBN 10: 082327005X ISBN 13: 9780823270057
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative, 2016

Synopsis

The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns first articulated in early German romanticism, this book goes on to mount a critique of romantic tendencies in contemporary criticism in order, ultimately, to develop an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein.

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About the Author

Audrey Wasser is Assistant Professor of French at Miami University, Ohio.

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Publisher
Modern Language Initiative
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
082327005X
ISBN 13 
9780823270057
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
216

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