Aesthetics and ideology in contemporary literature and drama / edited by Madelena Gonzalez and René Agostini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gonzalez, Madelena, editor.

Agostini, René, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

The conviction that the development and promotion of the arts, humanities and culture through the study of literature and the aesthetic are the fundamental constituents of any progress in society is at the heart of this volume. The essays gathered here explore the role of the imagination and aesthetic awareness in an age when the corporatization of knowledge is in the process of transforming literary studies, and political commitment is in danger of disappearing behind a supposedly post-ideological late-capitalist consensus.The main focus of the volume is the mutual implication of aesthetics a

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: The Influence of Ideology on Aesthetics

Esthé-logie et idéo-tique

Mircea Nedelciu et le « traitement fabulatoire » de l'idéologie communiste

Étude d'un poème-manifeste théâtral.

Poétiques du silence et de l'absence

Une théâtralisation de l'état des lieux de l'art théâtral contemporain.

Le comédien, le paradoxe et l'idéologie du salut

Chapter Two: The Question of Value

The "Aesthetics" of the Popular

Travail de mémoire ou travail de marchandisation ?

The Ideology of Affect

Une esthétique du non-positionnement ?

Chapter Three: Challenging Issues in Contemporary Aesthetics

Reality's a Stage

The Changing Aesthetics of Verbatim Theatre

Can we remind you that you're watching a play?

Esthétique de la surface et idéologie postmoderne dans le théâtre postdramatique germanophone

Défis politiques et esthétiques de la voie négative dans les arts de la représentation

Chapter Four: Aesthetics as Political Philosophy

Literary Form and Contesting the Subject in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger

Écrivains engagés ou désengagés dans le théâtre français du XXe siècle ?

Staging Politics

En-Gendering the Festive Spirit

Redrawing Bodily Boundaries

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8231-3

OCLC:

921235673