TY - BOOK ID - 77899872 TI - Ethics and aesthetics in European modernist literature PY - 2001 SN - 1107124336 0511013612 1280154942 051111978X 0511154526 0511328419 0511485743 0511044321 9780511013614 9780511154522 9780511119781 9780511044328 9780521806800 0521806801 9780511485749 9781280154942 9780521025164 0521025168 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Ethics in literature. KW - Aesthetics in literature. KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Literary movements KW - History and criticism. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Literature [Modern ] KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Ethics in literature KW - Aesthetics in literature KW - 82 "19" KW - 82 "19" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899872 AB - David Ellison's book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism. Ellison's study traces the origins of Modernism to the emergence of early German Romanticism from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and emphasizes how the passage from Romanticism to Modernism can be followed in the gradual transition from the sublime to the uncanny. Arguing that what we call High Modernism cannot be reduced to a religion of beauty, an experimentation with narrative form, or even a reflection on time and consciousness, Ellison demonstrates that Modernist textuality is characterized by the intersection, overlapping, and crossing of aesthetic and ethical issues. Beauty and morality relate to each other as antagonists struggling for dominance within the related fields of philosophy and theory on the one hand (Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud) and imaginative literature on the other (Baudelaire, Proust, Gide, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka). ER -