Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience - Reading Huysmans, Proust, Mccarthy, and Cusk

This book examines the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy.

List of contents

Acknowledgments ; Introduction:¿An Aesthetic Paradox; 1. Curated Moments in Joris-Karl Huysmans's À rebours; 2. Quiet Moments in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu ; 3. Violent Moments in Tom Mccarthy's Remainder; 4. Disconnected Moments in Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy;  Conclusion:¿Nearly Impossible to Represent; References; Index

About the author

Bryan Counter completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at SUNY Buffalo and teaches in the English departments at Western New England University and Framingham State University.

Summary

This book examines the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan Counter
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781839993435
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-343-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Anthem symploke Studies in Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: from c 2000