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The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
Audrey Wasser
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Description for The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823270064
SKU
V9780823270064
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About Audrey Wasser
Audrey Wasser is Assistant Professor of French at Miami University, Ohio.
Reviews for The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
"Lucid and beautifully written, The Work of Difference gives us an ontology of literature that is at once theoretical and practical. Audrey Wasser not only teaches us what literature can be but also what it can do and how it works in its most groundbreaking operations. Combining profound new readings of major modernist writers (Proust, Beckett, Stein) with a sophisticated ... Read more