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Modernism and Mimesis


Modernism and Mimesis



von: Stephen D. Dowden

CHF 118.00

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 26.09.2020
ISBN/EAN: 9783030531348
Sprache: englisch

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<div><div><p></p><p>This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting,&nbsp;music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a&nbsp;longstanding view, did not turn away from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates&nbsp;according to a deepened understanding of what mimesis is and how it works,&nbsp;which in turn occasions a fresh look at other related dimensions of the modernist&nbsp;achievement. Modernism is neither “difficult” nor elitist. Instead, it trends toward&nbsp;simplicity, directness, and common culture. Dowden argues that naïveté rather&nbsp;than highbrow sophistication was for the modernists a key artistic principle. He&nbsp;demonstrates that modernism, far from glorifying subjective creativity, directs&nbsp;itself toward healing the split between subject and object. Mimesis closes this&nbsp;gap by resolving representation into play and festivity.<br></p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p></p></div></div>
<p>1. Chapter 1:&nbsp; Uneasy Modernism.- 2.&nbsp;Chapter 2:&nbsp; Novelistic Style and the Disappearance of Breakfast.- 3. Chapter 3:&nbsp; Painting the World Picture.- 4. Chapter 4:&nbsp; Music as Natural Magic.- 5. Chapter 5: The Gift of Babel.</p>
<p>Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German Language and Literature at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.<br></p><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
<p>This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting,&nbsp;music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a&nbsp;longstanding view, did not turn away from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates&nbsp;according to a deepened understanding of what mimesis is and how it works,&nbsp;which in turn occasions a fresh look at other related dimensions of the modernist&nbsp;achievement. Modernism is neither “difficult” nor elitist. Instead, it trends toward&nbsp;simplicity, directness, and common culture. Dowden argues that naïveté rather&nbsp;than highbrow sophistication was for the modernists a key artistic principle. He&nbsp;demonstrates that modernism, far from glorifying subjective creativity, directs&nbsp;itself toward healing the split between subject and object. Mimesis closes this&nbsp;gap by resolving representation into play and festivity.<br></p><p></p>
<p>First book to undertake unifying reassessment of modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry.</p><p>Offers a new way to think about the nature of mimesis in modernist production.</p><p>Reorganizes the modernist canon.</p>

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