Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature - Couverture rigide

McLaughlin, Kevin

 
9780804724111: Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0804724113 ISBN 13 : 9780804724111
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this work focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture. The aim of the book is twofold: to explicate in the work of Balzac and Dickens subtle and profoundly ambivalent attitudes toward the rapidly expanding mass culture of the 1830's in France and England, and to identify through this reading of the novelists a common mimetic element that has eluded a certain dialectical approach to art's overcoming of mass culture - an approach best exemplified in Horkheimer and Adorno's influential essay on the "culture industry."

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804724113
ISBN 13 
9780804724111
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
188
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible