Phantom Formations :
Redfield, Marc,
Phantom Formations : Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" / Marc Redfield. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1996 - 1 online resource
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
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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:
In English.
9781501723179
10.7591/9781501723179 doi
PT747.E6 / .R434 1996eb
809.3/0094
Phantom Formations : Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" / Marc Redfield. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1996 - 1 online resource
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
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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:
In English.
9781501723179
10.7591/9781501723179 doi
PT747.E6 / .R434 1996eb
809.3/0094