Reading in Detail - Aesthetics and the Feminine

This classic work of feminist theory, now available with a new foreword,  provides ways of thinking about details in literature, art, and architecture, and uncovering the unspoken but powerful ideologies that attached gender to details.

List of contents

Note on Permissions List of Figures Foreword, Ellen Rooney Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Archaeology 1. Gender: In the Academy 2. Sublimation: Hegel’s Aesthetics 3. Decadence: Wey, Loos, Lukács 4. Displacement: The Case of Sigmund Freud 5. Desublimation: Roland Barthes’s Aesthetics Part 2: Readings 6. Dali’s Freud 7. The Delusion of Interpretation: The Conquest of Plassans 8. Fiction as Interpretation/Interpretation as Fiction 9. Duane Hanson: Truth in Sculpture 10. Details and Realism: The Curé de Tours Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

Naomi Schor (1943-2001) was the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French at Yale University. A noted scholar of French literature and critical theory, her other books include Zola's Crowds, Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory,and French Realist Fiction, George Sand and Idealism and Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular.

Summary

This classic work of feminist theory, now available with a new foreword,  provides ways of thinking about details in literature, art, and architecture, and uncovering the unspoken but powerful ideologies that attached gender to details.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Schor
• Assisted by: Ellen Rooney (Foreword)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2016
• EAN: 9781138146648
• ISBN: 978-1-138-14664-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism