{"product_id":"marginal-modernity-leonardo-f-lisi-9780823245321","title":"Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce","description":"Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, practiced by the avant-gardes. In this revisionary study, Leonardo Lisi argues that these models rest on assumptions about the nature of truth and existence that cannot be treated as exhaustive of modern experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLisi traces an alternative aesthetics of dependency that provides a different formal structure, philosophical foundation, and historical condition for modernist texts. Taking Europe's Scandinavian periphery as his point of departure, Lisi examines how Kierkegaard and Ibsen imagined a response to the changing conditions of modernity different from those at the European core, one that subsequently influenced James, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, and Joyce. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining close readings with a broader revision of the nature and genealogy of modernism, \u003cem\u003eMarginal Modernity \u003c\/em\u003echallenges what we understand by modernist aesthetics, their origins, and their implications for how we conceive our relation to the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonardo F. Lisi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823245322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823245321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Language Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Leonardo F. Lisi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44890602897663,"sku":"9780823245321","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b662465b-1e6c-49af-93ff-582346cce451.jpg?v=1709739500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marginal-modernity-leonardo-f-lisi-9780823245321","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}