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Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
ISBN: 9780823245352
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Dependency (Psychology) in literature; Aesthetics in literature; Philosophy in literature;

Marginal Modernity traces the emergence and dissemination of a new aesthetic paradigm from the periphery to the core of European culture. This "aesthetics of dependency" is distinct from the aesthetics of autonomy and fragmentation usually relied on and provides a different structure, philosophical foundation and historical condition for modernist works.

Leonardo F. Lisi is Assistant Professor in the Humanities Center at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce (Fordham).