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- Title
Myth, Remembrance, and Modernity: From Ruskin to Benjamin via Proust.
- Authors
Morrison, Kevin A.
- Abstract
This article presents the idea of aesthetic redemption of ordinary experience as evident in the works of cultural critic John Ruskin, writer Marcel Proust, and philosopher Walter Benjamin. The quest for happiness and correspondences with the past is discussed as an objective of all three men. Concepts such as modernity, aesthetic redemption of the present, myth, and remembrance are discussed in the essay.
- Subjects
RUSKIN, John, 1819-1900; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; PROUST, Marcel, 1871-1922; AESTHETICS in literature; EXPERIENCE in literature; MODERNITY; MYTH; ESSAYS
- Publication
Comparative Literature, 2008, Vol 60, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0010-4124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/-60-2-125