Bibliograph

Modernism and Phenomenology, Literature, Philosophy, Art, by Ariane Mildenberg

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Modernism and Phenomenology, Literature, Philosophy, Art, by Ariane Mildenberg

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Modernism and Phenomenology

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

982121180

Responsibility statement

by Ariane Mildenberg

Series statement

Springer eBooks.Modernism and..

Sub title

Literature, Philosophy, Art

Summary

Braiding together strands of literary, phenomenological and art historical reflection, Modernism and Phenomenology explores the ways in which modernist writers and artists return us to wonder before the world. Taking such wonder as the motive for phenomenology itself, and challenging extant views of modernism that uphold a mind-world opposition rooted in Cartesian thought, the book considers the work of modernists who, far from presenting perfect, finished models for life and the self, embrace raw and semi-chaotic experience. Close readings of works by Paul Cézanne, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Paul Klee, and Virginia Woolf explore how modernist texts and artworks display a deep-rooted openness to the world that turns us into "perpetual beginners." Pushing back against ideas of modernism as fragmentation or groundlessness, Mildenberg argues that this openness is less a sign of powerlessness and deferred meaning than of the very provisionality of experience.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Phenomenology, Modernism and the Crisis of Modernity -- Chapter 2: On Apples, Broken Frames and Fallenness: Phenomenology and the Unfamiliar Gaze in Cézanne, Stein and Kafka -- Chapter 3: Winged Messengers and Earthly Angels: Experience and Expression in Hopkins, Stevens and Klee -- Chapter 4: Virginia Woolf's Interworld: Folds, Waves, Gazes.-Chapter 5: Hyperdialectic: A Modernist Adventure

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