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Record Nr.

UNISA996210559703316

Autore

Joughin John J

Titolo

The new aestheticism / / editors, John J. Joughin, Simon Malpas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-73411-6

9786610734115

1-84779-035-6

1-4175-7801-7

Descrizione fisica

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

Altri autori (Persone)

JoughinJohn J

MalpasSimon

Disciplina

111.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.