Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the "bildungsroman"

by Marc Redfield

Book Overview

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 Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801432367
• ISBN13: 9780801432361
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher