Romanticism and the Object - Couverture rigide

Peer, L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0230617387 ISBN 13 : 9780230617384

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

Why are material objects so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device? This collection of essays maintains that European Romantic culture and its aesthetic artifacts were fundamentally shaped by "object aesthetics," an artistic idiom of acknowledging, through a profound and often disruptive use of objects, the movement of Western aesthetic practice into Romantic self-projection and imagination. Of course Romanticism, in all its dissonance and anxiety, is marked by a number of new artistic practices, all of which make up a new aesthetics, accounting for the dialectical and symbolistic view of literature that began in the late eighteenth century. Romanticism and the Object adds to our understanding of that aesthetics by reexamining a wide range of texts in order to discover how the use of objects works in the literature of the time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LARRY H. PEER is Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, USA, Executive Director of the International Conference on Romanticism, and editor of the journal Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, as well as author of several volumes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0230617387
• ISBN 13: 9780230617384
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 235
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