Critical Irony or the Lovers of Ruins: The Aesthete, the Dandy and the Flâneur

Critical Irony or the Lovers of Ruins: The Aesthete, the Dandy and the Flâneur

This essay examines the critical character of Friedrich Schlegel’s Romantic irony, following its considerations and appropriations by Walter Benjamin, Harold Bloom and Paul de Man. Likewise, it shows a parallelism of this critical attitude of irony with three Romantic literary figures: the aesthete,...

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Main Author: Naim Garnica
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Panamericana 2016-12-01
Series:Tópicos
Subjects:
Irony – Critical – Interruption- Aesthetic-Romanticism
Online Access:http://topicosojs.up.edu.mx/ojs/index.php/topicos/article/view/780
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spelling doaj-6a91a78130964e4998f229e01bcfcc7a2020-11-25T03:28:47ZspaUniversidad PanamericanaTópicos0188-66492007-84982016-12-0105215117210.21555/top.v0i52.780745Critical Irony or the Lovers of Ruins: The Aesthete, the Dandy and the FlâneurNaim Garnica0Universidad Nacional de CatamarcaThis essay examines the critical character of Friedrich Schlegel’s Romantic irony, following its considerations and appropriations by Walter Benjamin, Harold Bloom and Paul de Man. Likewise, it shows a parallelism of this critical attitude of irony with three Romantic literary figures: the aesthete, the dandy and the flâneur. The aesthete, the dandy and the flâneur, joined by a prophetic faith in art, make of irony a profession moving between creation and destruction. Appropriation in the poststructuralist context allows us to perceive in irony such a radical incomprehension, developing an aesthetic pattern operating between creation and annihilation.http://topicosojs.up.edu.mx/ojs/index.php/topicos/article/view/780Irony – Critical – Interruption- Aesthetic-Romanticism
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title Critical Irony or the Lovers of Ruins: The Aesthete, the Dandy and the Flâneur
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description This essay examines the critical character of Friedrich Schlegel’s Romantic irony, following its considerations and appropriations by Walter Benjamin, Harold Bloom and Paul de Man. Likewise, it shows a parallelism of this critical attitude of irony with three Romantic literary figures: the aesthete, the dandy and the flâneur. The aesthete, the dandy and the flâneur, joined by a prophetic faith in art, make of irony a profession moving between creation and destruction. Appropriation in the poststructuralist context allows us to perceive in irony such a radical incomprehension, developing an aesthetic pattern operating between creation and annihilation.
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