Revenge of the aesthetic [electronic resource] : the place of literature in theory today / edited by Michael P. Clark.

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Publication Date:

2000

ISBN:

9780520923508

9780585391731

9780520220027

9780520220041

9781597348690

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Marvell and the art of disappearance / Stanley Fish -- Ekphrasis revisited, or Antitheticality reconstructed / Hazard Adams -- Friedrich Schlegel and the anti-Ekphrastic tradition / J. Hillis Miller -- On truth and lie in an aesthetic sense / Ernst Behler -- Pictures of poetry in Marot's Épigrammes / Stephen G. Nichols -- Murray Krieger versus Paul de Man / Denis Donoghue -- Organicism in literature and history: from (Murray Krieger's) poetics to (Jules Michelet's) politics / David Carroll -- Of wisdom and competence / Wesley Morris -- What is literary anthropology? The difference between explanatory and exploratory fictions / Wolfgang Iser -- "A self-unsealing poetic text": poetics and politics of witnessing / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Rachel Bowlby -- My travels with the aesthetic / Murray Krieger.

Abstract:

This collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the last 30 years of the 20th century as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory. The contributors challenge trends that have recently dominated the field - especially those that emphasize social and political issues ofver close reading and other analytic methods traditionally associated with literary criticism.

Content Type:

text

Carrier Type:

online resource

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Author:

Clark, Michael, 1950-

Language:

English

Subject:

Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.

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