The Question of the Aesthetic (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Levine, George

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192659316
• Artikelnr.: 64205695

Autorenporträt

George Levine is Emeritus Professor at Rutgers University. His work has focused on Victorian fiction, George Eliot, and Darwin and his relation to the novel and, more recently, on the relation of science to literature and aesthetics, and secularism.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* PART 1
* 1: Derek Attridge: The Experience of Art
* 2: Richard Prum: The Ontology of Artworlds: A Posthuman,
Coevolutionary Framework for Aesthetics, Art History, and Art
Criticism
* PART 2
* 3: Jonah Siegel: Beauty and her Sisters in the Nineteenth Century and
After
* 4: Herbert Tucker: Gates of Horn in Ivory Towers: On Beauty's Truth
* PART 3
* 5: Isobel Armstrong: What we do: The New this and the New That
* 6: Josephine McDonagh: Is the Migrant a Metaphor? On Representation
of Migration in Contemporary Art, Film, and Literature
* 7: Edgar Garcia: Aesthetic Poison
* 8: Ankhi Mukherjee: Aesthetic Criticism and the Post-Colonial
* PART 4
* 9: Myra Jehlen: On the Last Paragraph of the 1859 Edition of Darwin's
Origin of Species
* 10: Philip Davis: Wild Aesthetics: D.H. Lawrence's 'Art for My Sake'
* 11: Richard Eldridge: 'whose eye darted contagious fire': Aesthetic
Form, Performative Action, and Paradise Lost
* 12: Susan J. Wolfson: Tennyson's Tears and Brooks's Motivations
* PART 5
* 13: Helen Small: Do Birds Disagree?: The Place of Aesthetic Value in
Advocacy for the Humanities