Revenge Of The Aesthetic

Author : Michael Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220048
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revenge of the Aesthetic written by Michael Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-07-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revenge of the Aesthetic stands as a call for further reassessment of the kind of work being done in the field of literary studies and promises to occupy a critical position in ensuing debates over the place of literature in relation to theory."—Emory Elliott, Distinguised Professor of English, University of California, Riverside "In the landscape of theory, we have been in the throes of historicism, a variety of cultural studies, and a variety of marxisms--all reading right through the text as if texts were not material but transparent, as if they were representations of the social. That was their limit. Revenge of the Aesthetic may well mark the beginning of a revolution against such practices."—Helen Regueiro Elam, Professor of English, SUNY Albany

Author : Pamela R. Matthews
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816639939
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Subjects written by Pamela R. Matthews and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning aesthetics is self-evident anymore. Determined to recover the value of aesthetic experience for artistic, cultural, and social analysis, the contributors to this volume--prominent scholars in literature, philosophy, art history, architecture, history, and anthropology--begin from a shared recognition that ideological readings of the aesthetic have provided invaluable insights, in particular, that analyses of aesthetics within historical and social contexts tell us a great deal about the experience of aesthetic encounters. From multiple and complementary perspectives, the contributors address topics as varied as Nabokov and Dickens, Caravaggio and Shelley Winters, gender and sexuality, advertising and AIDS. Taken together, their essays constitute a sustained and multifarious effort to resituate aesthetic pleasure in the mixed, impure conditions characteristic of every social practice and experience, however privileged or marginalized, and to ask what happens to the aesthetic if we consider it apart from--or at least in tension with--its historically dominant discursive formulations. As such, this volume establishes a renewed sense of aesthetic discourse and its usefulness as a tool for understanding culture.

Author : Stephen Dirle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Onan the Illiterate, Or The Revenge of the Aesthetic (philosophy as Art and the Artist Philosopher) written by Stephen Dirle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wojciech Małecki
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631612170
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodying Pragmatism written by Wojciech Małecki and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodying Pragmatism is the first monograph in English devoted to Richard Shusterman, an internationally renowned philosopher and one of today's most innovative thinkers in pragmatism and aesthetics. The book presents a comprehensive account of Shusterman's principal philosophical ideas concerning pragmatism, aesthetics, and literary theory (including such themes as interpretation, aesthetic experience, popular art, and human embodiment - culminating in his proposal of a new discipline called «somaesthetics»). As Shusterman's philosophical writings involve a dialogue with both analytic and continental traditions, this monograph not only offers a critical vision of contemporary pragmatist thought but also situates Shusterman and pragmatism within the current state of theory.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514754
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics written by Hugh Grady and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning.

Author : Peter Abbs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136495231
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aa is for Aesthetic (RLE Edu K) written by Peter Abbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist post-Modernist aesthetic.

Author : Frank Lentricchia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622905X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the New Criticism written by Frank Lentricchia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. In the first part, Frank Lentricchia analyzes the impact on our critical thought of Frye, Stevens, Kermode, Sartre, Poulet, Heidegger, Sussure, Barthes, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and Foucault, among other, less central figures. In a second part, Lentricchia turns to four exemplary theorists on the American scene—Murray Krieger, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom—and an analysis of their careers within the lineage established in part one. Lentricchia's critical intention is in evidence in his sustained attack on the more or less hidden formalist premises inherited from the New Critical fathers. Even in the name of historical consciousness, he contends, contemporary theorists have often cut literature off from social and temporal processes. By so doing he believes that they have deprived literature of its relevant values and turned the teaching of both literature and theory into a rarefied activity. All along the way, with the help of such diverse thinkers as Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and Bloom, Lentricchia indicates a strategy by which future critical theorists may resist the mandarin attitudes of their fathers.

Author : E. Pechter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119360
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Studies Today written by E. Pechter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which to build our work. This book asserts that among Shakespeareans at present, the level of conviction required to sustain a healthy critical practice is problematically if not dangerously low, and the qualities which the Romantics valued in an engagement with Shakespeare are either ignored these days or fundamentally misunderstood.

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Publisher : NorthSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 331410488X
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revenge of the Black Cat written by and published by NorthSouth Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, Katja Alves retells some traditional Swiss myths—exciting, funny, and sometimes gruesome tales from all four regions of the country. The exquisite illustrations were created by nineteen young artists who hail from Switzerland. Illustrations by: Anda, Carole Aufranc, Silvan Borer, Paloma Canonica, Anna Deér, Lucie Fiore, Gregor Forster, Lea Gross, Sara Guerra Rusconi, Mira Gysi, Rina Jost, Patricia Keller, Rahel Messerli, Jakob Näf, Camille Perrochet, Eliane Schädler, Pia Valär, Adam Vogt, and Anna Weber.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Aesthetics written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: