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Spoiled Distinctions : Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190201036
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spoiled DistinctionsDDC classification:
  • 840.9/112
LOC classification:
  • PQ307.M63 -- .F74 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ordinary, Everyday, Quelconque -- Aesthetic Indistinction -- Beauty's Afterlives -- Road Map -- Part 1 Aesthetic Disorientation in Proust -- 1. Prestige -- Synthetic Diamonds -- Proust's Newspaper -- Pastiche -- 2. Babble -- "Zut, zut, zut, zut" -- "Little patch of yellow wall" -- "I began to sing my head off" -- "Bah!" -- "O sole mio" -- 3. Nuance -- Too Close -- Dégradation -- Part 2 Mid-Century Experiments -- 4. Profanation in Ponge -- Awkward -- "As such, nothing more" -- 5. Sarraute's Bad Taste -- "It's beautiful, don't you think?" -- Inestimable Objects -- Too Sweet -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Spoiled Distinctions charts twentieth-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ordinary, Everyday, Quelconque -- Aesthetic Indistinction -- Beauty's Afterlives -- Road Map -- Part 1 Aesthetic Disorientation in Proust -- 1. Prestige -- Synthetic Diamonds -- Proust's Newspaper -- Pastiche -- 2. Babble -- "Zut, zut, zut, zut" -- "Little patch of yellow wall" -- "I began to sing my head off" -- "Bah!" -- "O sole mio" -- 3. Nuance -- Too Close -- Dégradation -- Part 2 Mid-Century Experiments -- 4. Profanation in Ponge -- Awkward -- "As such, nothing more" -- 5. Sarraute's Bad Taste -- "It's beautiful, don't you think?" -- Inestimable Objects -- Too Sweet -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Spoiled Distinctions charts twentieth-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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