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Phantom Formations : Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" / Marc Redfield.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501723179
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.3/0094
LOC classification:
  • PT747.E6
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Aesthetic Ideology -- 2 The Phantom Bildungsroman -- 3 Ghostly Bildung: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- 4 The Dissection of the State: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre and the Politics of Aesthetics -- Postscript: The Trouble with Schiller -- 5 The Aesthetics of Sympathy: George Eliot's Telepathy Machine -- 6 Aesthetics and History: L'Education sentimentale -- 7 Conclusions -- Index
Summary: Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Aesthetic Ideology -- 2 The Phantom Bildungsroman -- 3 Ghostly Bildung: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- 4 The Dissection of the State: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre and the Politics of Aesthetics -- Postscript: The Trouble with Schiller -- 5 The Aesthetics of Sympathy: George Eliot's Telepathy Machine -- 6 Aesthetics and History: L'Education sentimentale -- 7 Conclusions -- Index

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Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.

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