عنوان

The art of hunger :

(Number (ISBN

0192564064

(Number (ISBN

9780192564061

Erroneous ISBN

0198828896

Erroneous ISBN

9780198828891

Title Proper

The art of hunger :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

aesthetic autonomy and the afterlives of modernism /

First Statement of Responsibility

Alys Moody.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oxford :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Oxford English monographs

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- The modernist art of hunger -- Hunger in a closed system -- The starving artist as dying author -- Starving across the color line -- Conclusion.

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Text of Note

Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a process of starvation, as in the familiar type of the starving artist, and high art as the rejection of 'culinary' pleasures. The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism argues that this metaphor offers a way of describing the contradictions of aesthetic autonomy in modernist literature and its late-twentieth-century heirs. This book traces the emergence of a tradition of writing it calls the 'art of hunger', from the origins of modernism to the end of the twentieth century. It focuses particularly on three authors who redeploy the modernist0art of hunger as a response to key moments in the history of modernist aesthetic autonomy's delegitimization: Samuel Beckett in post-Vichy France; Paul Auster in post-1968 Paris and New York; and J.M. Coetzee in late apartheid South Africa. 0Combining historical analysis of these literary fields with close readings of individual texts, and drawing extensively on new archival research, this book offers a counter-history of modernism's post-World War II reception and a new theory of aesthetic autonomy as a practice of unfreedom.

Title

Art of hunger.

International Standard Book Number

9780198828891

Auster, Paul,1947-Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Criticism and interpretation.

Coetzee, J. M.,1940-Criticism and interpretation.

Auster, Paul,1947-

Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989.

Coetzee, J. M.,1940-

Ascetics in literature.

Hunger in literature.

Modernism (Aesthetics)

Modernism (Literature)

Ascetics in literature.

Hunger in literature.

Modernism (Aesthetics)

Modernism (Literature)

PHILOSOPHY-- Aesthetics.

PHI-- 001000

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Edition

Class number

Moody, Alys,1985-

Date of Transaction

20200822092703.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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