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Phantom formations : aesthetic ideology and the "Bildungsroman" / Marc Redfield.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via JSTOR)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: ITHACA : CORNELL University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
German fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
European fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Bildungsromans.
European fiction.
German fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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