Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood: Stimmung and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781032236537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Birgit Breidenbach

Opis

This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age. Through its focus on the concept of Stimmung, this study unearths a fundamental link between existentialist concerns and narrative practice in modern literature.

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction. Stimmung and Modernity: Theoretical Explorations

Stimmung in Modern Philosophy

Conceptualising Stimmung in Literature

Chapter 1: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Moody Modernity

Alienation in the Modern City

The Intensity of Aesthetic Experience

Aesthetic Intensity and the Modern Condition

Chapter 2: Aesthetic Attunement in Samuel Beckett’s Narrative Fiction

The (Pre- and Post-)Cartesian Subject in Murphy and Watt

‘All I am is feeling:’ The Textual Dynamics of Molloy

Decomposed Selves, Voices in the Dark

Chapter 3: Eine ‘Stimmungssache:’ Thomas Bernhard’s ‘Trilogy of the Arts’

Music and Artistic Ideal in The Loser

Woodcutters: Irritation and the Creative Process

Bernhard’s Aesthetics of Stimmung and the Failure of Art in Old Masters

Conclusion

Bibliography

O autorze

Birgit Breidenbach is a Lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She completed her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and gained teaching and research experience at Warwick and Queen Mary University of London before joining UEA in 2018. Her published and presented work focuses on literary and aesthetic theory, mood and affect and the interplay between philosophy and literature.