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In this paper we emphasize the persistence of the love of beauty in J.‐K. Huysmans's religious works, and we interpret his overall literary production as a systematic search for a new ethics by means of the aesthetic paradigm. Beyond a conversion from profane hedonism to Catholic faith, in the shift fromA RebourstoLa Cathédralewe see an oscillation between the religion of art and the art of religion, a tension between the attempt to make Beauty moral by legitimizing it through the rhetoric of religion, and the aestheticization of religion through the language of seduction. Even the saint's sacrifice inSainte Lydwine de Schiedamis a powerful source of aesthetic pleasure.Nevertheless, not even in her mission of pain can Huysman's last aesthete find anewethos and anewaesthetics. Actually,Sainte Lydwine de Schiedamreinstates, instead of exorcising, the specter of the “always already” which doomed Huysmans's previous works: even as an expiatory victim, the aesthete has arrived too late; Lydwine is just the epigone of a model — Jesus Christ — whose suffering had a greater moral impact upon mankind, and a higher degree

ISSN:0105-7510    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00092.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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The criticism of the first two volumes ofNordisk kvindelitteraturhistorie (Nordic Women's Literary History, 1993) is the point of departure for a general discussion of problems in writing women's literary history. It is argued that literary history can dispense neither with authors’biographies nor with social history and that women's texts must be analysed in context with their own literary tradition before their aesthetic value can be fully established. The problem of gender‐marked texts is discussed and commented on in both the American and the French theoretical tradition,i.e.texts as representing experienceversussex as positions in the texts; it is argued that a possible concept of textual subjectivity could be the connection between the writer's self‐consciousness or identity and the correspondent textual self‐image understood as the subject of the discourse.In the last two sections the traditional feminist approach to history is criticized for being too closely bound up with 19th century evolutionism and the modern oppression/liberation paradigm. An alternative point of view in accordance with the history of mentality is suggested and a genre typology consisting in three varieties of the female ‘Bildungsroman’is put forward as a possible basis for writing women's liter

ISSN:0105-7510    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00093.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Book Review in this Article.Northern Antiquity.The Post‐Medieval Reception of Edda and Sag

ISSN:0105-7510    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1995.tb00094.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY