The art of hunger : aesthetic autonomy and the afterlives of modernism / Alys Moody.

First edition.

9780191867361 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource.

PN56.M54

809.9112

Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Beginning in the mid-19th century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a process of starvation, as in the familiar type of the starving artist, and high art as the rejection of 'culinary' pleasures. 'The Art of Hunger' argues that this metaphor offers a way of describing the contradictions of aesthetic autonomy in modernist literature and its late-20th-century heirs. This book traces the emergence of a tradition of writing it calls the 'art of hunger', from the origins of modernism to the end of the 20th century.

Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Beginning in the mid-19th century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a process of starvation, as in the familiar type of the starving artist, and high art as the rejection of 'culinary' pleasures. 'The Art of Hunger' argues that this metaphor offers a way of describing the contradictions of aesthetic autonomy in modernist literature and its late-20th-century heirs. This book traces the emergence of a tradition of writing it calls the 'art of hunger', from the origins of modernism to the end of the 20th century.

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