03154nam 2200613 450 991079734800332120230807221037.00-19-046368-60-19-020104-50-19-020103-7(CKB)3710000000445715(EBL)3564690(SSID)ssj0001520382(PQKBManifestationID)12630922(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001520382(PQKBWorkID)11525974(PQKB)10211879(StDuBDS)EDZ0001199337(MiAaPQ)EBC3564690(MiAaPQ)EBC6185175(EXLCZ)99371000000044571520200805d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpoiled distinctions aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism /Hannah Freed-ThallNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (221 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-020102-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Ordinary, Everyday, Quelconque""; ""Aesthetic Indistinction""; ""Beauty's Afterlives""; ""Road Map""; ""Part 1 Aesthetic Disorientation in Proust""; ""1. Prestige""; ""Synthetic Diamonds""; ""Proust's Newspaper""; ""Pastiche""; ""2. Babble""; """Zut, zut, zut, zut"""; """Little patch of yellow wall"""; """I began to sing my head off"""; """Bah!"""; """O sole mio"""; ""3. Nuance""; ""Too Close""; ""Dégradation""; ""Part 2 Mid-Century Experiments""; ""4. Profanation in Ponge""; ""Awkward""; """As such, nothing more"""""5. Sarraute's Bad Taste"""""It's beautiful, don't you think?"""; ""Inestimable Objects""; ""Too Sweet""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""'Spoiled Distinctions' charts 20th-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday. These authors explore the unsophisticated side of aesthetic experience. Alert to the ways in which the hunger for distinction shapes mundane acts of seeing and feeling, they strive to imagine less exclusive practices of art-making and of aesthetic perception.French literature20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)FranceModernism (Aesthetics)FranceLife in literatureFrench literatureHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Modernism (Aesthetics)Life in literature.840.9112Freed-Thall Hannah1555835MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797348003321Spoiled distinctions3818059UNINA