{"product_id":"the-art-of-hunger-aesthetic-autonomy-and-the-afterlives-of-modernism-9780198828891","title":"The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism","description":"Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e argues that this metaphor offers a way of describing the contradictions of aesthetic autonomy in modernist literature and its late-twentieth-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 twentieth century. It focuses particularly on three authors who redeploy the modernist art of hunger as a response to key moments in the history of modernist aesthetic autonomy's delegitimization: Samuel Beckett in post-Vichy France; Paul Auster in post-1968 Paris and New York; and J. M. Coetzee in late\u003cbr\u003eapartheid South Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining historical analysis of these literary fields with close readings of individual texts, and drawing extensively on new archival research, this book offers a counter-history of modernism's post-World War II reception and a new theory of aesthetic autonomy as a practice of unfreedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alys Moody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198828891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlys Moody, \u003cem\u003eLecturer in English, Macquarie University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlys Moody is a Lecturer in English at Macquarie University in Sydney where she teaches modernism and contemporary literature. She previously worked at the University of Waikato and the University of Oxford, where she received her DPhil. With Stephen J. Ross, she is the editor of a forthcoming anthology of source texts for global modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40923078230131,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":188.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4f6daa7c-9ab8-40ad-9585-c69b205ab52a.jpg?v=1692103513","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-art-of-hunger-aesthetic-autonomy-and-the-afterlives-of-modernism-9780198828891","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}