Screen LibraryThe question of the aesthetic /
This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of the aesthetic at the same tim...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of the aesthetic at the same time as it demonstrates that focus on the aesthetic does not preclude attention of the urgent questions with which works of art consistently engaged. It argues that attention to the aesthetic does not diminish attention to these larger issues, but in effect increases the power both of art and criticism to engage them fruitfully. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780192844859 0192844857 |
| Index Number: | PN45 |
| CLC: | I01 |
| Call Number: | I01/Q55 |
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Introduction / 1. Two theories -- 1. The Experience of Art / 2. The Ontology of Artworlds: A Post-Human, Coevolutionary Framework for Aesthetics, Art History, and Art Criticism / 2. Beauty and utility -- 3. Beauty and Her Sisters in the Nineteenth Century and After / 4. Gates of Horn in Ivory Towers: On Beauty's Truth / 3. Aesthetics and politics -- 5. What We Do: The New This and the New That / 6. Can Migrants Be Seen? Some Representations of Migration in Contemporary Art, Film, and Literature / 7. Aesthetic Poison / 8. Aesthetic Criticism and the Postcolonial / 4. Reading closely: form and meaning -- 9. On the Last Paragraph of the 1859 Edition of Darwin's Origin of Species / 10. Wild Aesthetics: D.H. Lawrence's "Art for My Sake" / 11. "Whose Eye Darted Contagious Fire": Aesthetic Form, Performative Action, and Paradise Lost / 12. Tennyson's Tears, Brooks's Motivations / 5. Overview -- 13. Do Birds Disagree? The Place of Aesthetic Value in Advocacy for the Humanities / |