Phantom Formations Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman"

Marc 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 Goe...

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Main Author: Redfield, Marc (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2018
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