Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman

Description

. Phantom Formations addresses the problem of the Bildungsroman through a rigorous examination of aesthetic ideology which explains the hysteria provoked by literary theory, clarifies the link between aestheticism and technologism, and questions the aesthetic presuppositions of the pragmatist and neo-professionalist ideologies of the modern bureaucratic university.

• Author: Marc Redfield
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Published: 1996
• Pages: 252
• ISBN-13: 9780801432361