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Literary Aesthetics

A Reader

Singer, Alan / Dunn, Allen (Editor)

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1. Edition December 2000
376 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-20868-6
John Wiley & Sons

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.

Part I: Introduction: What is Literary Aesthetics?.

Part II: Community, Culture, Politics.

Part III: Beauty and Sublimity.

Part IV: Truth, Value, Ethics.

Part V: Literary Formalism.

Part VI: Agency, Expression.

Part VII: Gender.

Part VIII: Aesthetic/Anti-Aesthetic: Contemporary Debates.
"This volume can be strongly recommended as a first reader in aesthetics for interested students of literature." Reference Reviews
Alan Singer teaches in the Department of English at Temple
University, specialising in critical literary theory and film
theory. His books include The Subject as Action (1993).

Allen Dunn is at the English Department at the University
of Tennessee.

A. Singer, Temple University; A. Dunn, University of Tennessee