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Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism

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Availability:In StockContributor:Hannah Freed-ThallPublish date:2018-05-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190887391ISBN-10:190887397UPC:9780190887391Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Semiotics & Theory, ModernBook Topic:French, 20th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCCDQKNN1P

Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism

Spoiled Distinctions investigates crises of evaluation in twentieth-century France. Taking Marcel Proust as its central figure, the book theorizes the disorienting force of everyday aesthetic experience. In a series of surprising readings, Hannah Freed-Thall frees Proust from his reputation as the most refined of high modernists. The author of In Search of Lost Time appears here as a journalist...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190887391ISBN-10:190887397UPC:9780190887391Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Semiotics & Theory, ModernBook Topic:French, 20th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCCDQKNN1P
Hannah Freed-Thall is Assistant Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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