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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199861125
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 163x239x22 mm
- Weight 533 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Fictions of Autonomy presents a revisionary account of aesthetic autonomy and transnational modernism with a range of readings that includes works by Wilde, Eliot, Joyce, Barnes, and Stevens alongside writings by theorists like Adorno and de Man.
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No aspect of modernist literature has attracted more passionate defenses, or more furious denunciations, than its affinity for the idea of autonomy. A belief in art as a law unto itself is central to the work of many writers from the late nineteenth century to the present. But is this belief just a way of denying art's social contexts, its roots in the lives of its creators, its political and ethical obligations?
Fictions of Autonomy argues that the concept of autonomy is, on the contrary, essential for understanding modernism historically. Disputing the prevailing skepticism about autonomy, Andrew Goldstone shows that the pursuit of relative independence within society is modernism's distinctive way of relating to its contexts. Goldstone examines an expansive modernist field in fiction, poetry, and theory--Oscar Wilde, J.-K. Huysmans, Henry James, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, Djuna Barnes, Theodor Adorno, Paul de Man--in order to reveal an ever-shifting preoccupation with autonomy. Drawing on Bourdieu's sociology, formalist reading, and historical contextualization, this book demonstrates the importance of autonomy to modernist themes as varied as domestic service, artistic aging, expat life, and non-referentiality.
Nothing less than an argument for a wholesale revision of the assumptions of modernist studies, Fictions of Autonomy is also an intervention in literary theory. This book shows why anyone interested in literary history, the sociology of culture, and aesthetics needs to take account of the social, stylistic, and political significance of the problem, and the potential, of autonomy.
The author's thoughtful and important consideration of literary autonomy reopens a provocative conversation with new insight, and it is intelligently and articulately conveyed.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
An institutional approach
Aesthetic autonomy in practice and in philosophy
Thee fictions of autonomy and their themes
Modernist studies and the expanded field
Autonomy from Labor
In Service to Art for Art's Sake from Wilde to Proust
Aesthetic autonomy? Our servants will do that for us
Wilde: the truth of masks with manners
Huysmans: the decadent master-servant dialectic
Henry James: the subtlety of service
Proust: service in the magic circle
Aestheticist self-consciousness
Autonomy from the Person
Impersonality and Lateness in Eliot and Adorno
Adorno's theory of impersonality
Eliot's late style, 1910-1958
Four Quartets and musical lateness
The late style and the intentional fallacy
Expatriation as Autonomy
Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, and Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism
Nightwood: the luminous deterioration of cosmopolitanism
French nights and the artist's lifestyle
Wandering Jews, wandering Americans
"Vagaries Malicieux": losing all connection at the Deux Magots
Stephen Dedalus's hat
Literature without External Reference
Tautology in Wallace Stevens and Paul de Man
The aesthete is the aesthete
The Academy of Fine Ideas: Stevens and de Man in the university
De Man, modernism, and the correspondence theory
The sound of autonomy
The plain sense of tautology
Epilogue: Autonomy Now
Autonomy, literary study, and knowledge production
Autonomy abroad: proliferation on the world stage
The truth about fictions of autonomy
Index
