Beyond the Paradox of the Nostalgic Modernist : Temporality in the Works of J.-K. Huysmans
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The Modernist Revolution in World Literature
ISBN-10
0820455784
ISBN-13
9780820455785
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 26th, 2004
Print length
284 Pages
Weight
528 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.70 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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This investigation of J.-K. Huysmans’ representation of temporality sheds light on the complex and paradoxical nature of this late-nineteenth-century novelist and art critic, who was a modernist steeped in nostalgia as well as a nostalgic steeped in modernity. To unveil and understand the mechanisms and logic of this paradox, Elisabeth M. Donato examines Huysmans’ characters’ dealings with measured time and schedules, investigates the failure of des Esseintes’ aesthetic experiment, and relates the novelist’s construct of «spiritualist naturalism» to his increasingly frequent and intense longings for his own medieval utopia. Donato’s new perspective onto the intricate relationship between modernity and nostalgia underscores Huysmans’ firm and very modern stance à rebours of commonality in his never ending search for a solution to his dilemma.
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