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Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism
Freed-Thall, Hannah (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University)
Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism
Freed-Thall, Hannah (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University)
Spoiled Distinctions charts twentieth-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.
224 pages, 4 halftones
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 8, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9780190201029 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 224 |
Dimensions | 244 × 167 × 23 mm · 436 g |