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The Value Of Kitsch. Hermann Broch And Robert Musil On Art And Morality, Patrizia C. Mcbride
The Value Of Kitsch. Hermann Broch And Robert Musil On Art And Morality, Patrizia C. Mcbride
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This article examines the discourse on kitsch articulated by Austrian novelists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Robert Musil (1880-1942) between 1930 and 1950. In particular, I focus on the ways in which the two novelists draw the distinction of value between real and pseudo art (or kitsch). As I argue, their disagreement on this matter is emblematic of dilemmas that continue to confront aesthetic evaluation today. While Broch anchors value in a metaphysical realm on the outside of aesthetic discourse, assuming a late-idealistic notion of art, Musil frames the distinction between 'good' and 'bad' art within an empirical, relativistic, and immanent …
Reviews Of Recent Publications
Reviews Of Recent Publications
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Edwards, Catherine, ed. Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945. Christina Ujma
Gilman, Sander L. and Jurek Becker. A Life in Five Worlds. David Malcolm
Rodden, John, ed. Conversations with Isabel Allende. Daniela Melis
Schrift, Alan D., ed. Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics. Jennifer Marston William
Viegnes, Michel, ed. Hugo et la chimère. Recherches & Travaux 62. Kathryn M. Grossman
Winston, Jane Bradley. Postcolonial Duras: Cultural Memory in Postwar France. Carol J. Murphy
Reviews Of Recent Publications
Reviews Of Recent Publications
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Chanan, Michael. Cuban Cinema David William Foster
Izenberg, Gerald N. Modernism and Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandisnky through World War I. Aaron J. Cohen
Jonsson, Stefan. Subject Without Nation: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity. Post-Contemporary Interventions. Albrecht Classen
Kaiser, David Aram. Romanticism, Aesthetics and Nationalism. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 34. Catherine Grimm
Lopez de Martinez, Adelaida and Harriet Turner. The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present. Toni Dorca
McCulloh, Mark R. Understanding W.G. Sebald. Peter C. Pfeiffer
Peterson, Dale E. Up From Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul. Kathleen M. …