02243nam 2200421 450 991048342320332120230823000820.03-030-53134-110.1007/978-3-030-53134-8(CKB)4100000011476542(MiAaPQ)EBC6357813(DE-He213)978-3-030-53134-8(EXLCZ)99410000001147654220210225d2020 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierModernism and Mimesis /Stephen D. Dowden1st ed. 2020.Cham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2020]©20201 online resource (IX, 283 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.) 3-030-53133-3 1. Chapter 1: Uneasy Modernism -- 2. Chapter 2: Novelistic Style and the Disappearance of Breakfast -- 3. Chapter 3: Painting the World Picture -- 4. Chapter 4: Music as Natural Magic -- 5. Chapter 5: The Gift of Babel.This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a longstanding view, did not turn away from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates according to a deepened understanding of what mimesis is and how it works, which in turn occasions a fresh look at other related dimensions of the modernist achievement. Modernism is neither “difficult” nor elitist. Instead, it trends toward simplicity, directness, and common culture. Dowden argues that naïveté rather than highbrow sophistication was for the modernists a key artistic principle. He demonstrates that modernism, far from glorifying subjective creativity, directs itself toward healing the split between subject and object. Mimesis closes this gap by resolving representation into play and festivity.LiteraturePhilosophyLiteraturePhilosophy.801Dowden Stephen D.1083265MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483423203321Modernism and Mimesis2855186UNINA