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The new aestheticism /

Introduces the idea of a new aestheticism - "new" in that it identifies a turn taken by contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focusing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways of thinking about identity, politics and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Joughin, John J., Malpas, Simon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The new aestheticism: an introduction / John J. Joughin, Simon Malpas
  • PART I. POSITIONS
  • Aesthetic education and the demise of experience / Thomas Docherty
  • Art in time of war: towards a contemporary aesthetic / Jonathan Dollimore
  • Mimesis in black and white: feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
  • What comes after art? / Andrew Bowie
  • Touching art: aesthetics, fragmentation and community / Simon Malpas
  • PART II. READINGS
  • The Alexandrian aesthetic / Howard Caygill
  • Defending poetry, or, is there an early modern aesthetic? / Mark Robson
  • Shakespeare's genius: Hamlet, adaptation and the work of following / John J. Joughin
  • Critical knowledge, scientific knowledge and the truth of literature / Robert Eaglestone
  • Melancholy as form: towards an archaeology of modernism / Jay Bernstein
  • PART III. REFLECTIONS
  • Kant and the ends of criticism / Gary Banham
  • Including transformation: notes on the art of the contemporary / Andrew Benjamin
  • Aesthetics and politics: between Adorno and Heidegger / Joanna Hodge.