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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101399506501

ISBN-139781399506502

eBay Product ID (ePID)22064178374

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRomanticism, Realism and the Lines of Mimesis

SubjectComparative Literature, History / Romanticism, Modern / 19th Century

Publication Year2024

TypeBilingual

AuthorPolly Dickson

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Art

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsI know of nothing quite like this bold, innovative and endlessly intriguing way of juxtaposing a range of binaries: concepts, movements and authors. This is a book not to miss., Mimesis constitutes realism, fantasy Romanticism? Polly Dickson examines how algorithmically entwined and logically unstable mimesis and fantasy actually are. This lucid and erudite investigation of writers from Plato to Wilde discloses a new Hoffmann and a new Balzac, a new Romanticism and a new realism.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal809.912

Edition DescriptionBilingual edition

Table Of ContentList of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Abbreviations and Translations Introduction: Balzac and Hoffman I: Mimesis 1. Mimesis and the Chiasm 2. A Brief History of Undulating Lines II: Lines 3. Arabesque: Der goldne Topf and La Peau de chagrin 4. Scribble: Der Artushof and Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu 5. Cross: Die Elixiere des Teufels and L'Élixir de longue vie Conclusion: Fiction's Pretexts Bibliography Index

SynopsisExamines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European literature, Since Plato's Republic , mimesis -- the artwork's tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life -- has faced a near-constant stream of assaults, being accused of naturalising a supposedly uncomplicated relationship between world and fiction. Lines of Mimesis offers a revisionary account of mimesis. Specifically, it proposes a rethinking of the representational attitudes of two literary schools usually understood to be at odds with one another -- Romanticism and Realism -- through close readings of writings and drawings made by two figures usually taken to be proponents of those schools respectively: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac. Across these readings, Dickson argues that a more capacious understanding of mimesis is achieved when we understand it to pertain not to the reduplication of objects in the world, but to a negotiation of the subject's sensory entwinement with those objects. This new understanding can, in turn, more closely illuminate an artwork's own reflections on its relationship to the world, shedding light on the entanglements and crossovers between Romanticism and Realism.

LC Classification NumberPN56.M536D5 2024