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Modernism and Coherence
Fabio Akcelrud Durão
Fabio Durão
其他書名
Four Chapters of a Negative Aesthetics
出版
Peter Lang
, 2008
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Philosophy / Aesthetics
ISBN
3631569491
9783631569498
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9KN_fTe5974C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Modernism and Coherence
is an attempt to develop a negative aesthetics conceived as determinate resistance of artworks against the meaning assigned to them by criticism. From the accumulation of arguments on great texts of modernism, the book describes gestures of refusal that generate figures of negativity: Adorno's
Aesthetic Theory
becomes a whirlpool revolving around a center refusing predication; Wallace Stevens' poetry exhibits a phonetic escape valve against the pressure of reality; Robert Frost writes a poem that is ahead of you in both senses of the expression; and James Joyce's
Ulysses
reads its readers in waves of self-folding. This book is an effort to salvage literature as something in itself in a world that increasingly can only see what is for the other.