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Radical Aesthetic

Autor Armstrong
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2000
This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631220534
ISBN-10: 0631220534
Pagini: 292
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

students of cultural studies and literary theory and general readers

Notă biografică

Isobel Armstrong is professor of English at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published widely on Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, nineteenth-century poetry, poetics, politics, theories of language and contemporary literary theory. She is co-editor of Women: A Cultural Review. Her most recent books include Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993) and the Oxford Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women Poets (1996), edited with Joe Bristow.

Cuprins

Introduction: A Case for Rethinking the Category of the Aesthetic.Part I: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the 'Problem' of the Aesthetic:.
1. Cultural Materialism and Culturalism.
2. The Aesthetic and the Polis: Marxist Deconstruction.
3. Writing from the Broken Middle - Post Structuralist Deconstruction.
Part II: The Poetics of Emotion:.
4. Textual Harassment: the ideology of close reading, or how close is close?.
5. Thinking Affect.
Part III: Cultural Capital, Value and a Democratic Aesthetics:.
6. Beyond the Pricing Principle.
7. And Beauty? A Dialogue.
Part IV: Feminism and Aesthetic Practice:.
8. Debating Feminisms.
9. Women's Space: Echo, Caesura, Echo.
Bibliography.

Descriere

Provides a severe critique of the contemporary anti-aesthetic movement. Points to the democratic and radical potential of the aesthetic. Forges an alternative aesthetic discourse. Draws upon a wide range of theorists and philosophers, and uses a variety of literary and artistic examples to reinforce the argument.