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Braiding together strands of literary, phenomenological and art historical reflection, Modernism and Phenomenology explores the ways in which modernist writers and artists return us to wonder before the world. Taking such wonder as the motive for phenomenology itself, and challenging extant views of...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Braiding together strands of literary, phenomenological and art historical reflection, Modernism and Phenomenology explores the ways in which modernist writers and artists return us to wonder before the world. Taking such wonder as the motive for phenomenology itself, and challenging extant views of modernism that uphold a mind-world opposition rooted in Cartesian thought, the book considers the work of modernists who, far from presenting perfect, finished models for life and the self, embrace raw and semi-chaotic experience. Close readings of works by Paul Cézanne, Gertrude Stein, Franz K |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 183 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-175) and index. |
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9780230289369 0230289363 |
| Index Number: | BH301 |
| CLC: | B83-069 |
| Call Number: | B83-069/M641 |
| Contents: | Introduction: phenomenology, modernism and the crisis of modernity -- On apples, broken frames and fallenness: phenomenology and the unfamiliar gaze in Cézanne, Stein and Kafka -- Earthly angels and winged messengers: experience and expression in Hopkins, Stevens and Klee -- Virginia Woolf's interworld: Folds, waves, gazes -- Hyperdialectic: a modernist adventure. |