Title The art of hunger : aesthetic autonomy and the afterlives of modernism / Alys Moody

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford English monographs Oxford English monographs. Contents Introduction -- The modernist art of hunger -- Hunger in a closed system -- The starving artist as dying author -- Starving across the color line -- Conclusion Summary Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a process of starvation, as in the familiar type of the starving artist, and high art as the rejection of 'culinary' pleasures. The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism argues that this metaphor offers a way of describing the contradictions of aesthetic autonomy in modernist literature and its late-twentieth-century heirs. This book traces the emergence of a tradition of writing it calls the 'art of hunger', from the origins of modernism to the end of the twentieth century. It focuses particularly on three authors who redeploy the modernist0art of hunger as a response to key moments in the history of modernist aesthetic autonomy's delegitimization: Samuel Beckett in post-Vichy France; Paul Auster in post-1968 Paris and New York; and J.M. Coetzee in late apartheid South Africa. 0Combining historical analysis of these literary fields with close readings of individual texts, and drawing extensively on new archival research, this book offers a counter-history of modernism's post-World War II reception and a new theory of aesthetic autonomy as a practice of unfreedom Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 16, 2018) Subject Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation Auster, Paul, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Auster, Paul, 1947- fast (OCoLC)fst00084658 Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. fast (OCoLC)fst00035621 Coetzee, J. M., 1940- fast (OCoLC)fst00117350 Subject Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Literature) Hunger in literature. Ascetics in literature. PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics. Ascetics in literature. Hunger in literature. Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Literature) Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192564061 0192564064

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