Birgit Breidenbach is a Lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She completed her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and gained teaching and research experience at Warwick and Queen Mary University of London before joining UEA in 2018. Her published and presented work focuses on literary and aesthetic theory, mood and affect and the interplay between philosophy and literature.

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• PrefaceIntroduction. Stimmung and Modernity: Theoretical ExplorationsStimmung in Modern PhilosophyConceptualising Stimmung in LiteratureChapter 1: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Moody ModernityAlienation in the Modern CityThe Intensity of Aesthetic ExperienceAesthetic Intensity and the Modern ConditionChapter 2: Aesthetic Attunement in Samuel Beckett’s Narrative FictionThe (Pre- and Post-)Cartesian Subject in Murphy and Watt‘All I am is feeling:’ The Textual Dynamics of MolloyDecomposed Selves, Voices in the DarkChapter 3: Eine ‘Stimmungssache:’ Thomas Bernhard’s ‘Trilogy of the Arts’Music and Artistic Ideal in The LoserWoodcutters: Irritation and the Creative ProcessBernhard’s Aesthetics of Stimmung and the Failure of Art in Old MastersConclusionBibliography

Birgit Breidenbach is a Lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She completed her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and gained teaching and research experience at Warwick and Queen Mary University of London before joining UEA in 2018. Her published and presented work focuses on literary and aesthetic theory, mood and affect and the interplay between philosophy and literature.

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• PrefaceIntroduction. Stimmung and Modernity: Theoretical ExplorationsStimmung in Modern PhilosophyConceptualising Stimmung in LiteratureChapter 1: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Moody ModernityAlienation in the Modern CityThe Intensity of Aesthetic ExperienceAesthetic Intensity and the Modern ConditionChapter 2: Aesthetic Attunement in Samuel Beckett’s Narrative FictionThe (Pre- and Post-)Cartesian Subject in Murphy and Watt‘All I am is feeling:’ The Textual Dynamics of MolloyDecomposed Selves, Voices in the DarkChapter 3: Eine ‘Stimmungssache:’ Thomas Bernhard’s ‘Trilogy of the Arts’Music and Artistic Ideal in The LoserWoodcutters: Irritation and the Creative ProcessBernhard’s Aesthetics of Stimmung and the Failure of Art in Old MastersConclusionBibliography