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Phantom Formations Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" / Marc Redfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redfield, Marc, 1958-
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- European fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- European fiction.
- German fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- German fiction.
- Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
- Bildungsromans.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Marc Redfield is Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of English, and Chair of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism, The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror, and Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America.
- Summary:
- Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Aesthetic Ideology
- 2 The Phantom Bildungsroman
- 3 Ghostly Bildung: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
- 4 The Dissection of the State: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre and the Politics of Aesthetics
- Postscript: The Trouble with Schiller
- 5 The Aesthetics of Sympathy: George Eliot's Telepathy Machine
- 6 Aesthetics and History: L'Education sentimentale
- 7 Conclusions
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501723162
- 1501723162
- 9781501723179
- 1501723170
- OCLC:
- 1057670301
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