Author: Susan L. Fischer
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838753248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Self-conscious art constitutes a significant and previously neglected feature of modern literature and is a crucial concern of contemporary criticism. The essays in this volume consider such questions as the limits of self-consciousness, the creative and circumstantial tensions that produce its various features, the ludic nature of art, the role of interpretation, and the aesthetic, social, and mythic reverberations of self-reflexive art.