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Author Freed-Thall, Hannah, author.

Title Spoiled distinctions : aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism / Hannah Freed-Thall.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-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. These authors explore the unsophisticated side of aesthetic experience. Alert to the ways in which the hunger for distinction shapes mundane acts of seeing and feeling, they strive to imagine less exclusive practices of art-making and of aesthetic perception.
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.
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Subject French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Modernism (Literature) -- France.
Modernism (Literature)
France.
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- France.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Life in literature.
Life in literature.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Freed-Thall, Hannah. Spoiled Distinctions : Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism. Cary : Oxford University Press, ©2015 9780190201029
ISBN 9780190201036 (electronic book)
0190201037 (electronic book)
9780190201043
0190201045
9780190201029 (cloth)
0190201029