1st Edition

The Poetics of the Kunstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime

By Evy Varsamopoulou Copyright 2017
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2002: This study of the poetics of the Romantic K nstlerinroman (female artist novel) brings to the foreground its salient metafictional discourse on the aesthetics of the sublime, ever since its beginnings in Madame de Sta l's "Corinne ou L'Italie". The book presents detailed readings of H.D.'s "Palimpsest", Christa Wolf's "Nachdenken ber Christa T." and... Read more
1: The Sublime Subject of Corinne ou L'Italie; 2: The Subject of the Sublime in Aesthetics: Problems and Possibilities; 3: Subjectivity and Writing as Palimpsest: H.D.'s Modernist Künstlerinroman; 4: The Conundrum of Authorization: Christa Wolf's Nachdenken über Christa T .; 5: Eros, Thanatos, I: The Sublimity of Writing the Family Romance in Marguerite Duras' L'Amant; Conclusion The Aesthetics of a Literary Account

Biography

Evy Varsamopoulou