The new aestheticism / edited by John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joughin, John J.

Malpas, Simon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Criticism.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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 culture.

Contents:

The new aestheticism: an introduction / John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas

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

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786610734115

9781280734113

1280734116

9781847790354

1847790356

9781417578016

1417578017

OCLC:

632574118