Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature - Hardcover

Mclaughlin, Kevin

 
9780804724111: Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0804724113 ISBN 13: 9780804724111
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this book focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture.

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Kevin McLaughlin is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University.

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Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this work focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture. The aim of the book is twofold: to explicate in the work of Balzac and Dickens subtle and profoundly ambivalent attitudes toward the rapidly expanding mass culture of the 1830's in France and England, and to identify through this reading of the novelists a common mimetic element that has eluded a certain dialectical approach to art's overcoming of mass culture - an approach best exemplified in Horkheimer and Adorno's influential essay on the "culture industry".

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804724113
ISBN 13 
9780804724111
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
202
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