Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

Informationen zum Autor Timothy Aubry is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. Klappentext For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one¿s thought and the purity of one¿s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground. Zusammenfassung For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Aubry
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2018
• EAN: 9780674986466
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98646-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Popular philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, formalism