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

By:

Freed-Thall, Hannah [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780190201036
0190201037

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PQ307.63

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Contents:

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

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book	G. Allen Fleece Library Online	Non-fiction	PQ307.63 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn913829050

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.