LEADER 03856nam 22005295 450 001 9910156335103321 005 20200930204743.0 010 $a3-319-42171-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-42171-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000985587 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-42171-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4773497 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000985587 100 $a20161222d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion$b[electronic resource] $eLiterature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists /$fby Geoffrey A. Baker 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 279 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Modern European Literature,$x2634-6478 311 $a3-319-42170-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Literary Activism, Clarity and Confusion -- Chapter 1: ?For Love of Clarity?: Émile Zola, Practice, and the Political Potential of Realistic Literature -- Chapter 2: Grounds for Confusion: Nietzsche, Theory, and the Political Potential of Anti-Realism -- Chapter 3: Between Theory and Practice: Matthew Arnold, Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, and the Purpose of the Intellectual -- Chapter 4: ?Different Kinds of Clarity?: Science, Sense, and Utilitarian Realism in Bertolt Brecht -- Chapter 5: Pressing Engagement: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Aesthetic Problem of the Political -- Chapter 6: An Other Engagement: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethical Problem of the Political -- Conclusion: Contemporary Engagements with Clarity and Confusion -- Works Cited. 330 $aWhat should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of the avant-garde experimentalism versus critical realism debates from the twentieth century, Geoffrey A. Baker highlights the often violent reductions at work in earlier debates. Instead of prizing one approach over the other, as many participants in those debates have done, Baker instead focuses instead on the manner in which the debate itself between these approaches continues to prove productive and enabling for politically engaged writers. This book thus offers a way beyond the simplistic polarity of realism vs. anti-realism in a study that is focused on influential strands of thought in England, France, and Germany and that covers well-known authors such as Zola, Nietzsche, Arnold, Mann, Brecht, Sartre, Adorno, Lukács, Beauvoir, Morrison, and Coetzee. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Modern European Literature,$x2634-6478 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature?Philosophy 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aComparative Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/811000 606 $aLiterary Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000 606 $aEuropean Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/832000 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature?Philosophy. 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 14$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 676 $a809 700 $aBaker$b Geoffrey A$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01060536 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156335103321 996 $aThe Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion$92514082 997 $aUNINA