The Poetics of the Kunstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime

ISBN-13: 9781138741331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 294 str.

Evy Varsamopoulou

Opis

This title was first published in 2002: This study of the poetics of the Romantic K nstlerinroman (female artist novel) brings to the foreground its salient metafictional discourse on the aesthetics of the sublime, ever since its beginnings in Madame de Sta l's "Corinne ou L'Italie".

Spis treści

The "Kunstlerinroman" at the interface between German Romanticism and French Enlightenment; the subject of the sublime in aesthetics - problems and possibilities; subjectivity and writing as "palimpsest" - HD's modernist "Kunstlerinroman" problematics; the conundrum of author-ization - Christa Wolf's "Nachdenken uber Christa T; eros, thanatos, I - the sublimity of writing the family romance in Marguerite Duras' "L'Amant".

O autorze

Evy Varsamopoulou