{"product_id":"literary-aesthetics-isbn-9780631208693","title":"Literary Aesthetics","description":"It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology works to reassert the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices.  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction: What is Literary Aesthetics?:\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Community, Culture, Politics:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrancis Hutcheson: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eFrancis Hutcheson: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Kivy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthony, Earl of Shaftesbury: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eCharacteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited with Notes by John Robertson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKarl Marx: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eKarl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eKarl Marx: Early Writings:\u003c\/i\u003e Translated and Edited by T. B. Bottomore.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorg Lukacs: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of the Novel, A Historic-Philosophical Novel on the Forms of Great Epic Literature:\u003c\/i\u003e Translated by Anna Bostock.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Gyorgy Lukacs: Art as Self-Consciousness in Man's Development, in \u003ci\u003eMarxism and Art: Writings in Aesthetics and Criticism:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited by Beryl Lang and Forrest Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter Benjamin: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Author as Producer' From \u003ci\u003eReflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans. Edmund Jephciott.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerbert Marcuse: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics:\u003c\/i\u003e Herbert Marcuse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheodor W. Adorno: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, Newly Translated, Edited by Robert Hullot-Kentor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHans Georg Gadamer: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Trans. Nicholas Walker.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouis Althusser: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eLenin and Philosophy and Other Essays:\u003c\/i\u003e Louis Althusser, Trans. Ben Brewster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFredric Jameson: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act:\u003c\/i\u003e Fredric Jameson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Beauty and Sublimity:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlotinus: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eEnnead V\u003c\/i\u003e (Eighth Tractate) 'On Intellectual Beauty.' Sections 1, 2, 3, 8, 13.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Hume: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'Of the Standard of Taste', in \u003ci\u003eDavid Hume: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited by Eugene F. Miller.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImmanuel Kant: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eCritique of Judgement:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans. Werner S. Pluhar.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Chapter 14, Definitions of a Poem and Poetry, in \u003ci\u003eBiographia Literaria:\u003c\/i\u003e Eds, James Engell and W. Jackson Bate.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Heidegger: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'The Origin of the Work of Art', in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Language, Thought: Martin Heidegger:\u003c\/i\u003e Translations and Introductions by Albert Hofstadter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaurice Merleau-Ponty: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Visible and the Invisible:\u003c\/i\u003e Maurice Merleau-Ponty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLonginus: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in \u003ci\u003eOn the Sublime:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans. T. S. Dorsch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean-Francois Lyotard: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?': in \u003ci\u003eThe Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans., Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdmund Burke: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eInquiry into the Origins of the Beautiful and the Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter Pater: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Truth, Value, Ethics:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiambattista Vico: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe New Science of Giambattista Vico:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Gottlieb Baumgarten: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eReflections on Poetry:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans. Karl Aschrenbrenner and William Holther.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohann Georg Hamann: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eAesthetica in Nuce\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eJ. G. Hamann 1730-1788: A Study in Christian Existence.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Symposium.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Section 4, 'From the Soul of Artists and Writers', in \u003ci\u003eHuman, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans. Marion Faber with Stephen Lehmann.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Derrida: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Truth in Painting:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans, Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Lacan: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited by Jacques Alain Miller, Translated by Dennis Porter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRene Girard: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Introduction, \u003ci\u003e'To Double Business Bound' Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Arnold: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'On Poetry', in \u003ci\u003eEnglish Literature and Irish Politics:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited by R. H. Super.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohann Gottfried Herder: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOssian and the Songs of Ancient People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Literary Formalism:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Poetics', from \u003ci\u003eAristotle's Politics and Poetics:\u003c\/i\u003e Trans., Benjamin Jowett and Thomas Twining.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMonroe C. Beardsley: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAesthetics: Problems in the philosophy of criticism:\u003c\/i\u003e Monroe C. Beardsley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenedetto Croce: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Aesthetics', article from fourteenth edition of the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopaedia Britannica:\u003c\/i\u003e Benedetto Croce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eT. S. Eliot: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Social Function of Poetry', in \u003ci\u003eOn Poetry and Poets:\u003c\/i\u003e T. S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoland Barthes: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'What is Criticism?', in \u003ci\u003eCritical Essays:\u003c\/i\u003e Roland Barthes, Trans., Richard Howard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCleanth Brooks: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Language of Paradox', in \u003ci\u003eThe Well Wrought Urn:\u003c\/i\u003e Cleanth Brooks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGerard Genette: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence:\u003c\/i\u003e Gerard Genette, Trans., G. M. Goshgarian.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVictor Shklovsky: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Art as Technique', in \u003ci\u003eRussian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays:\u003c\/i\u003e Victor Shklovsky, Trans., Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Agency, Expression:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriedrich Schiller: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Letter XVI', in \u003ci\u003eOn the Aesthetic Education of Man:\u003c\/i\u003e Friedrich Schiller.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The Poet', in \u003ci\u003eEssays by Ralph Waldo Emerson:\u003c\/i\u003e Ralph Waldo Emerson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG. W. F. Hegel: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Division of the Subject', \u003ci\u003eIntroductory Lectures on Aesthetics:\u003c\/i\u003e G. W. F. Hegel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriedrich Schlegel: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms:\u003c\/i\u003e Friedrich Schlegel, Trans., Ernst Behler and Roman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKenneth Burke: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Literary Form', \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action:\u003c\/i\u003e Kenneth Burke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Altieri: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals:\u003c\/i\u003e Charles Altieri.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dewey: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt as Experience:\u003c\/i\u003e John Dewey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLudwig Wittgenstein: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Lectures on Aesthetics', \u003ci\u003eLectures \u0026amp; Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief:\u003c\/i\u003e Ludwig Wittgenstein.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Gender:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Silly Novels by Women Novelists', in \u003ci\u003eSelected Critical Writings:\u003c\/i\u003eGeorge Eliot, Edited by Rosemary Ashton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf, in \u003ci\u003eWomen and Writing:\u003c\/i\u003e Edited by Michele Barrett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAphra Behn: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Preface', in \u003ci\u003eThe Dutch Lover:\u003c\/i\u003e Aphra Behn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJulia Kristeva: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eRevolution in the Poetic Language:\u003c\/i\u003e Julia Kristeva.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Aesthetic\/Anti-Aesthetic: Contemporary Debates:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTony Bennett: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Really Useless Knowledge', \u003ci\u003eOutside Literature:\u003c\/i\u003e Tony Bennet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean-Luc Nancy: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sense of the World:\u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Luc Nancy, Trans. Jeffrey S. Librett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur C. Danto: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur C. Danto, 'Aesthetics and the Work of Art', \u003ci\u003eTransfiguation of the Commonplace:\u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Luc Nancy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePierre Bourdieu: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePierre Bourdieu, 'The Author's Point of View', \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field:\u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Luc Nancy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaul de Man: Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Resistance to Theory:\u003c\/i\u003e Paul de Man.\u003c\/p\u003e \"This volume can be strongly recommended as a first reader in aesthetics for interested students of literature.\" \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAlan Singer\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Department of English at Temple University, specialising in critical literary theory and film theory. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Subject as Action\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllen Dunn\u003c\/b\u003e is at the English Department at the University of Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e  It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology reasserts the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom its inception literary aesthetics has been engaged in the full range of debates generated by the criticism of culture. Unlike the more restricted discourse of philosophical aesthetics, it has explored the ways in which value commitments extend across disciplinary domains by reckoning with the practical concerns of art production and consumption.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe readings in this anthology reach back to classical sources of philosophical aesthetics and forward to the most current accounts of the utility\/value of the literary artwork in post-modern culture. The organization of the text is designed to engage the reader in the shaping debates of literary aesthetic theory and demonstrate their continuing relevance for our understanding of the ways literature sustains and critiques culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989535834341,"sku":"NP9780631208693","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631208693.jpg?v=1761784502","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/literary-aesthetics-isbn-9780631208693","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}