The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form - Softcover

Wasser, Audrey

 
9780823270064: The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form

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The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns first articulated in early German romanticism, this book goes on to mount a critique of romantic tendencies in contemporary criticism in order, ultimately, to develop an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein.

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Audrey Wasser is Assistant Professor of French at Miami University, Ohio.

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9780823270057: The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form

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ISBN 10:  082327005X ISBN 13:  9780823270057
Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2016
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