Literary Aesthetics A Reader

Name: Literary Aesthetics A Reader
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ISBN: 9780631208693

ISBN-10: 0631208690

ISBN-13: 9780631208693

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alan Singer, Allen Dunn

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It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology reasserts the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices.From its inception literary aesthetics has been engaged in the full range of debates generated by the criticism of culture. Unlike the more restricted discourse of philosophical aesthetics, it has explored the ways in which value commitments extend across disciplinary domains by reckoning with the practical concerns of art production and consumption.The readings in this anthology…

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List price: $60.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




Introduction: What is Literary Aesthetics?



Community, Culture, Politics


Francis Hutcheson: Introduction


From Francis Hutcheson: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design: Edited with an Introduction and Notes



Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury: Introduction


From Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury: Edited with Notes



Karl Marx: Introduction


From Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works


From Karl Marx: Early Writings: Translated and Edited



Georg Lukacs: Introduction


From The Theory of the Novel, A Historic-Philosophical Novel on the Forms of Great Epic Literature: Translated




Gyorgy Lukacs: Art as Self-Consciousness in Man's Development, in Marxism and Art: Writings in Aesthetics and Criticism: Edited



Walter Benjamin: Introduction


'The Author as Producer' From Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings: Trans


Edmund Jephciott


Herbert Marcuse: Introduction


From The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics: Herbert Marcuse


Theodor W. Adorno: Introduction


From Aesthetic Theory: Edited



Hans Georg Gadamer: Introduction


From The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays: Edited



Nicholas Walker


Louis Althusser: Introduction


From Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays: Louis Althusser, Trans


Ben Brewster


Fredric Jameson: Introduction


From The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act: Fredric Jameson



Beauty and Sublimity


Plotinus: Introduction


From Ennead V (Eighth Tractate) 'On Intellectual Beauty


' Sections 1, 2, 3, 8, 13.David Hume: Introduction


From 'Of the Standard of Taste', in David Hume: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary: Edited



Immanuel Kant: Introduction


From Critique of Judgement: Trans


Werner S. Pluhar


Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Introduction


From Chapter 14, Definitions of a Poem and Poetry, in Biographia Literaria: Eds, James Engell and W. Jackson Bate


Martin Heidegger: Introduction


From 'The Origin of the Work of Art', in Poetry, Language, Thought: Martin Heidegger: Translations and Introductions



Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Introduction


From The Visible and the Invisible: Maurice Merleau-Ponty


Longinus: Introduction


From Chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in On the Sublime: Trans


T. S. Dorsch


Jean-Francois Lyotard: Introduction


From 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?': in The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge: Trans., Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi


Edmund Burke: Introduction


From Inquiry into the Origins of the Beautiful and the Sublime


Walter Pater: Introduction


From The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry



Truth, Value, Ethics


Giambattista Vico: Introduction


From The New Science of Giambattista Vico: Trans


Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch


Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten: Introduction


From Reflections on Poetry: Trans


Karl Aschrenbrenner and William Holther


Johann Georg Hamann: Introduction


From Aesthetica in Nuce, in J. G. Hamann 1730-1788: A Study in Christian Existence


Plato: Introduction


From The Symposium


Friedrich Nietzsche: Introduction


From Section 4, 'From the Soul of Artists and Writers', in Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits: Trans


Marion Faber with Stephen Lehmann


Jacques Derrida: Introduction


From The Truth in Painting: Trans, Geoff Bennington and Ian McL