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.

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
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.04.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9781839993435
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-343-5
• Pages: 192
• Series: Anthem symploke Studies in Theory
• Subjects: LIFE, Chance, Immanuel Kant, Marcel Proust, memory, TIME, Literature, Nature, Reading, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Plot, Rachel Cusk, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: from c 2000, Atmosphere, Aesthetic experience, Tom McCarthy