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Spoiled distinctions : aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism / Hannah Freed-Thall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190201036
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PQ307 .S665 2015
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Summary: 'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday. These authors explore the unsophisticated side of aesthetic experience. Alert to the ways in which the hunger for distinction shapes mundane acts of seeing and feeling, they strive to imagine less exclusive practices of art-making and of aesthetic perception.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday. These authors explore the unsophisticated side of aesthetic experience. Alert to the ways in which the hunger for distinction shapes mundane acts of seeing and feeling, they strive to imagine less exclusive practices of art-making and of aesthetic perception.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ordinary, Everyday, Quelconque; Aesthetic Indistinction; Beauty's Afterlives; Road Map; Part 1 Aesthetic Disorientation in Proust; 1. Prestige; Synthetic Diamonds; Proust's Newspaper; Pastiche; 2. Babble; "Zut, zut, zut, zut"; "Little patch of yellow wall"; "I began to sing my head off"; "Bah!"; "O sole mio"; 3. Nuance; Too Close; Dégradation; Part 2 Mid-Century Experiments; 4. Profanation in Ponge; Awkward; "As such, nothing more"; 5. Sarraute's Bad Taste; "It's beautiful, don't you think?"; Inestimable Objects; Too Sweet; Afterword; Notes

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