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Book SynopsisMarginal Modernity traces the emergence and dissemination of a new aesthetic paradigm from the periphery to the core of European culture. This “aesthetics of dependency” is distinct from the aesthetics of autonomy and fragmentation usually relied on and provides a different structure, philosophical foundation and historical condition for modernist works.
Trade Review"Leonardo Lisi's study is exemplary in that it demonstrates a rare mastery of the diverse areas of research his study intervenes in. He situates his readings in relation to what he sketches as major tendencies of recent scholarship and all of his individual readings are innovative, stringent and of exceptionally high quality." -- -Johnannes Turk Indiana University, Bloomington "...a superb work, extraordinarily learned, original, well-written, and of great importance." -- -J. Hillis Miller University of California, Irvine
