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The uselessness of art : essays in the philosophy of art and literature /
Oscar Wilde's famous quip "All art is quite useless" might not be as outrageous or demonstrably false as is often supposed. No-one denies that much art begins life with practical aims in mind: religious, moral, political, propagandistic, or the aggrandising of its subjects. But those...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton ; Chicago :
Sussex Academic Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Critical voices (Brighton, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The uselessness of art
- 2. Historical embeddedness and artistic autonomy
- 3. Paleolithic cave painting : a test case for trans-cultural aesthetics
- 4. The disintegration of aesthetics
- 5. Prolegomena to any future philosophy of literature
- 6. What is the philosophy of poetry?
- 7. Cognitive values in the arts : marking the boundaries
- 8. Belief, thought, and literature
- 9. About
- 10. Whimsicality in the films of Eric Rohmer.