Spoiled distinctions : aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism /
Freed-Thall, Hannah,
Spoiled distinctions : aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism / Hannah Freed-Thall. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ordinary, Everyday, Quelconque; Aesthetic Indistinction; Beauty's Afterlives; Road Map; Part 1 Aesthetic Disorientation in Proust; 1. Prestige; Synthetic Diamonds; Proust's Newspaper; Pastiche; 2. Babble; "Zut, zut, zut, zut"; "Little patch of yellow wall"; "I began to sing my head off"; "Bah!"; "O sole mio"; 3. Nuance; Too Close; Dégradation; Part 2 Mid-Century Experiments; 4. Profanation in Ponge; Awkward; "As such, nothing more"; 5. Sarraute's Bad Taste; "It's beautiful, don't you think?"; Inestimable Objects; Too Sweet; Afterword; Notes.
'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday. These authors explore the unsophisticated side of aesthetic experience. Alert to the ways in which the hunger for distinction shapes mundane acts of seeing and feeling, they strive to imagine less exclusive practices of art-making and of aesthetic perception.
9780190201036 (electronic bk.) 0190201037 (electronic bk.) 9780190201043 0190201045 (cloth)
811451 MIL
1900-1999
French literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--France.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--France.
Life in literature.
Littérature française--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Modernisme (Littérature)--France.
Modernisme (Esthétique)--France.
Vie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
French literature.
Life in literature.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Literature)
Fransk litteratur--historia.
Modernism (litteratur)
Modernism.
France.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ307.M63 / F74 2015eb
840.9/112
Spoiled distinctions : aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism / Hannah Freed-Thall. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ordinary, Everyday, Quelconque; Aesthetic Indistinction; Beauty's Afterlives; Road Map; Part 1 Aesthetic Disorientation in Proust; 1. Prestige; Synthetic Diamonds; Proust's Newspaper; Pastiche; 2. Babble; "Zut, zut, zut, zut"; "Little patch of yellow wall"; "I began to sing my head off"; "Bah!"; "O sole mio"; 3. Nuance; Too Close; Dégradation; Part 2 Mid-Century Experiments; 4. Profanation in Ponge; Awkward; "As such, nothing more"; 5. Sarraute's Bad Taste; "It's beautiful, don't you think?"; Inestimable Objects; Too Sweet; Afterword; Notes.
'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday. These authors explore the unsophisticated side of aesthetic experience. Alert to the ways in which the hunger for distinction shapes mundane acts of seeing and feeling, they strive to imagine less exclusive practices of art-making and of aesthetic perception.
9780190201036 (electronic bk.) 0190201037 (electronic bk.) 9780190201043 0190201045 (cloth)
811451 MIL
1900-1999
French literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--France.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--France.
Life in literature.
Littérature française--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Modernisme (Littérature)--France.
Modernisme (Esthétique)--France.
Vie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
French literature.
Life in literature.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Literature)
Fransk litteratur--historia.
Modernism (litteratur)
Modernism.
France.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ307.M63 / F74 2015eb
840.9/112