03265oam 22006254a 450 991027235010332120210915044304.01-5017-2316-21-5017-2317-010.7591/9781501723179(CKB)4340000000258207(MiAaPQ)EBC5317513(OCoLC)1057670301(MdBmJHUP)muse67536(DE-B1597)496559(OCoLC)1028953987(DE-B1597)9781501723179(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89108(EXLCZ)99434000000025820719960409d1996 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPhantom FormationsAesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" /Marc RedfieldCornell University Press2018Ithaca, N.Y. :Cornell University Press,1996.©1996.1 online resource (220 pages)Includes index.0-8014-3236-7 1-5017-2318-9 9781501723162 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --1 Aesthetic Ideology --2 The Phantom Bildungsroman --3 Ghostly Bildung: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre --4 The Dissection of the State: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre and the Politics of Aesthetics --Postscript: The Trouble with Schiller --5 The Aesthetics of Sympathy: George Eliot's Telepathy Machine --6 Aesthetics and History: L'Education sentimentale --7 Conclusions --IndexMarc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.Aesthetics, ModernEuropean fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismGerman fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismBildungsromansHistory and criticismElectronic books. Literature: history & criticismAesthetics, Modern.European fictionHistory and criticism.German fictionHistory and criticism.BildungsromansHistory and criticism.809.3/0094Redfield Marc1958-995386MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910272350103321Phantom Formations2435911UNINA