Author: Holdheim, W. Wolfgang
Title: The Hermeneutic Mode. Essays on Time in Literature and Literary Theory
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1984). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 274 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Essay as Knowledge in Progress; Criticism: The Structure of Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground'; The Culmination of Love in Benjamin Constant's 'Adolphe'; A Revaluation of Andre Gide's ' Paludes'; A History of Art in Victor Hugo's'Notre-Dame de Paris'; Speranski's Dinner & the Duality of 'War and Peace'; Description and Cliche; Theory: Time and the Aesthetic Phenomenon; Aesthetics and History: Convergence & Paradox; The Concept of Poetic Estrangement; Wilhelm Worringer & the Polarity of Understanding; Auerbach's 'Mimesis': Aesthetics as Historical Understanding; Narrativity as Knowledge.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Aesthetics, Time in Literature, Critical theory, , , , ,