Modernism And Mimesis

Author : Stephen D. Dowden
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030531348

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Modernism and Mimesis by Stephen D. Dowden Pdf

This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a longstanding view, did not turn away from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates according to a deepened understanding of what mimesis is and how it works, which in turn occasions a fresh look at other related dimensions of the modernist achievement. Modernism is neither “difficult” nor elitist. Instead, it trends toward simplicity, directness, and common culture. Dowden argues that naïveté rather than highbrow sophistication was for the modernists a key artistic principle. He demonstrates that modernism, far from glorifying subjective creativity, directs itself toward healing the split between subject and object. Mimesis closes this gap by resolving representation into play and festivity.

Author : Helen Rydstrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501343421

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Rhythmic Modernism by Helen Rydstrand Pdf

Contrary to the common view that cultural modernism is a broadly anti-mimetic movement, one which turned away from traditional artistic goals of representing the world, Rhythmic Modernism argues that rhythm and mimesis are central to modernist aesthetics. Through detailed close readings of non-fiction and short stories, Helen Rydstrand shows that textual rhythms comprised the substance of modernist mimesis. Rhythmic Modernism demonstrates how many modernist writers, such as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, were profoundly invested in mimicking a substratum of existence that was conceived as rhythmic, each displaying a fascination with rhythm, both as a formal device and as a vital, protean concept that helped to make sense of the complex modern world.

Author : Nidesh Lawtoo
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628950427

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The Phantom of the Ego by Nidesh Lawtoo Pdf

The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo starts with Friedrich Nietzsche’s antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes—from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion, to crowd behavior—move the soul, and his insistence that psychology informs philosophical reflection. Through a transdisciplinary, comparative reading of landmark modernist authors like Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Georges Bataille, Lawtoo shows that, before being a timely empirical discovery, the “mimetic unconscious” emerged from an untimely current in literary and philosophical modernism. This book traces the psychological, ethical, political, and cultural implications of the realization that the modern ego is born out of the spirit of imitation; it is thus, strictly speaking, not an ego, but what Nietzsche calls, “a phantom of the ego.” The Phantom of the Ego opens up a Nietzschean back door to the unconscious that has mimesis rather than dreams as its via regia, and argues that the modernist account of the “mimetic unconscious” makes our understanding of the psyche new.

Author : Nidesh Lawtoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Ego (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 1628960426

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The Phantom of the Ego by Nidesh Lawtoo Pdf

The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo starts with Friedrich Nietzsche's antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes-from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion, to crowd behavior-move the soul, and his insistence that psychology informs philosophical reflection. Through a transdisciplinary, comparative reading of landmark modernist authors like Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, and Georges Bataille, Lawtoo shows that, before being a timely empirical discovery, the "mimetic unconscious" emerged from an untimely current in literary and philosophical modernism. This book traces the psychological, ethical, political, and cultural implications of the realization that the modern ego is born out of the spirit of imitation; it is thus, strictly speaking, not an ego, but what Nietzsche calls, "a phantom of the ego." The Phantom of the Ego opens up a Nietzschean back door to the unconscious that has mimesis rather than dreams as its via regia, and argues that the modernist account of the "mimetic unconscious" makes our understanding of the psyche new.

Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0691012695

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Mimesis by Erich Auerbach Pdf

Author : Wojciech Kaftanski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000480641

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Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity by Wojciech Kaftanski Pdf

This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaard’s idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis. Taking mimesis as a crucial conceptual point of reference in reading Kierkegaard, this book offers a nuanced understanding of the relation between aesthetics and religion in his thought. Kaftanski shows how Kierkegaard's dialectical-existential reading of mimesis interlaces aesthetic and religious themes, including the familiar core concepts of imitation, repetition, and admiration as well as the newly arisen notions of affectivity, contagion, and crowd behavior. Kierkegaard’s enduring relevance to the malaises of our own day is firmly established by his classic concern for the meaning of human life informed by reflective meditation on the mimeticorigins of the contemporary age. Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Kierkegaard, Continental philosophy, the history of aesthetics, and critical and religious studies. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Leigh Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780748672332

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Modernism and Magic by Leigh Wilson Pdf

Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth century

Author : Jessica Burstein
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271053769

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Cold Modernism by Jessica Burstein Pdf

"Explores a significant but overlooked aspect of early twentieth-century modernism, one that focuses on surface appearance rather than interiority or psychological depth. Looks at the writers Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy, the artists Balthus and Hans Bellmer, and the fashion designer Coco Chanel"--Provided by publisher.

Author : William Collins Donahue,Georg Mein,Rolf Parr
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839469811

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andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies by William Collins Donahue,Georg Mein,Rolf Parr Pdf

andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, and traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. In addition, we welcome contributions by journalists, librarians, archivists, and other commentators interested in German Studies broadly conceived. As a specifically transatlantic endeavor, we also highlight select topics in American Studies that impact German Studies. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This issue features sections about German Studies approaches to media literacy, Stephen Dowden's book »Modernism and Mimesis« and the poetics of ambiguous memory.

Author : Graham Ley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015048858495

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From Mimesis to Interculturalism by Graham Ley Pdf

Complementing existing studies of the major modern theorists, Graham Ley's study encourages the reader to re-examine the basis of theatrical theory and presents a detailed critique of the theory from its Greek origins to current ideas & assumptions.

Author : David Shackleton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192857743

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British Modernism and the Anthropocene by David Shackleton Pdf

British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene--a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth century was marked by environmental transformations that were so complex and happened on such great scales that they defied representation. Modernist novelists responded with a range of innovative narrative forms that started to make environmental crisis on a planetary scale visible. Paradoxically, however, it is their failures to represent such a crisis that achieve the greatest success. David Shackleton explores how British modernists employed types of narrative breakdown--including fragmentation and faltering passages devoid of events--to expose the limitations of human schemes of meaning, negotiate the relationship between different scales and types of time, produce knowledge of ecological risk, and register various forms of non-human agency. Situating modernism in the context of fossil fuel energy systems, plantation monocultures, climate change, and species extinctions, Shackleton traces how H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, Olive Moore, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys undertook experiments with time in their novels that refigure history and the historical situations into which they were thrown. Ultimately, British Modernism and the Anthropocene shows how modernist novels provide rich resources for rethinking the current environmental crisis, and cultivating new structures of environmental care and concern.

Author : Saija Isomaa,Pirjo Lyytikäinen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443839587

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Rethinking Mimesis by Saija Isomaa,Pirjo Lyytikäinen Pdf

Literary mimesis is an age-old concept which has been variously interpreted and at times highly contested, and which has recently been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. The debate around mimesis has been reactivated by approaches that re-evaluate its meaning both in the ancient texts in which it first appeared, and in the contemporary discussions of the power of literary representation. This volume presents a selection of central contributions to both the theoretical debate on mimesis and to its up-to-date critical practice. This volume approaches mimesis by emphasising the principles of knowledge, understanding and imagination that have been associated with mimesis since Aristotle’s Poetics. The articles consider the various aspects of the concept throughout history, and explore the ways in which literature produces its peculiar reality effects and negotiates its relationship to value systems connecting it to the world of everyday experience and ethics, as well as to different ideologies, emotions, world views and fields of knowledge. Building on this rich theoretical background, the articles examine the limits and possibilities of mimesis through detailed textual analyses that present acute challenges to our current understanding of literary representation.

Author : Tom Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521465842

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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock by Tom Cohen Pdf

The material elements of writing have long been undervalued, and have been dismissed by recent historicising trends of criticism; but analysis of these elements - sound, signature, letters - can transform our understanding of literary texts. In this 1994 book Tom Cohen shows how, in an era of representational criticism and cultural studies, the role of close reading has been overlooked. Arguing that much recent criticism has been caught in potentially regressive models of representation, Professor Cohen undertakes to counter this by rethinking the 'materiality' of the text itself. Through a series of revealing new readings of the work of writers including Plato, Bakhtin, Poe, Whitman and Conrad, Professor Cohen exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and demonstrates how 'the materiality of language' operates to undo the representational models of meaning imposed by the literary canon.

Author : Tessel M. Bauduin,Henrik Johnsson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319764993

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The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema by Tessel M. Bauduin,Henrik Johnsson Pdf

Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day. This volume explores how Occultism came to shape modernist art, literature, and film. Individual chapters examine the presence and role of Occultism in the work of such modernist luminaries as Rainer Maria Rilke, August Strindberg, W.B. Yeats, Joséphin Péladan and the artist Jan Švankmaier, as well as in avant-garde film, post-war Greek Surrealism, and Scandinavian Retrogardism. Combining the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field of Esotericism Studies with those of Literary Studies, Art History, and Cinema Studies, this volume provides in-depth and nuanced perspectives upon the relationship between Occultism and Modernism in the Western arts from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : Emmett Stinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501329104

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Satirizing Modernism by Emmett Stinson Pdf

Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, William Gaddis's The Recognitions, and Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things-were under-recognized and received poor reviews at the time of publication, but have increasingly been acknowledged as both groundbreaking and deeply influential. Satirizing Modernism analyzes these novels in order to present an alternative account of literary modernism, which should be viewed neither as a radical break with the past nor an outmoded set of aesthetics overtaken by a later postmodernism. In self-reflexively critiquing their own aesthetics, these works express an unconventional modernism that both revises literary history and continues to be felt today.