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The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form

The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form

Wasser, Audrey

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0823270068
ISBN13: 9780823270064
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns first articulated in early German romanticism, this book goes on to mount a critique of romantic tendencies in contemporary criticism in order, ultimately, to develop an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein.

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