{"product_id":"aesthetics-theory-and-interpretation-of-the-literary-work-9789004393660","title":"Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features. In doing so, it refers to two main traditions of Western culture: one of aesthetics and the theory of art and the other of literary theory. In our postmodern world, language and artistic creation (and above all literature as the art of language) occupy a special role in understanding the human world and become existential issues. A critical attitude requires knowledge of the relevant past in order to understand what we are today. The author presents key topics, ideas, and representatives of aesthetics, theory, and the interpretation of works of art in an historical perspective, in order to explain the Western tradition with constant attention to the present condition.  Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work offers an outline of essential concepts and authors of aesthetics and theories of the literary work, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development, considering their relevance to the contemporary debate, and highlighting the specificity of the experience of the art work in our present world. The best way to approach a work of art is to enjoy it. In order to enjoy a literary work, we have to consider its correct context and its specific artistic qualities. The book is conceived as a general and enjoyable introduction to the experience of the work of art in Western culture.    See inside the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Paolo Euron manages to present a coherent and compact history of western critical thought, retaining a sense of its magnitude and complexity and the indefinable course of its development over two thousand years. [...] It is the quality of this historical and humanistic vision that makes Paolo Euron’s book lively and appealing and refreshingly different from much of the current professional work in this field. [...] Euron’s book is a highly readable and competent introduction to western literary criticism and the philosophy of aesthetics. It combines a firm grasp of the material with accuracy and rigour of analysis and clarity in presentation.\" S. Sreenivasan, in Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, Jan-June 2020.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    1 Art, Beauty and Imitation in Plato’s Philosophy    2 Art and Imitation in Aristotle    3 Horace, Pseudo-Longinus and the Aesthetics of Literature in Hellenism    4 Plotinus, Neo-Platonic and Christian Conception of Beauty    5 The Middle Ages and Dante Alighieri    6 Humanism and the New Idea of Human Beings    7 Italian Neo-Platonism and Marsilio Ficino    8 The New Idea of the Human Being and Artist: The Renaissance    9 The Baroque: History and Poetry in Giambattista Vico    10 Baumgarten: Aesthetics and Sensitivity    11 Kant and the Origin of Modern Aesthetics    12 The Heritage of Kantian Philosophy in Romanticism    13 Moritz: Beyond the Concept of Imitation    14 Theory of Poetry of Early German Romanticism    15 Hegel: Art as a Form of the Absolute Spirit    16 Schopenhauer: Art as Disinterestedness and Knowledge of Reality    17 Nietzsche: Knowledge and Art    18 Symbolism and Aestheticism    19 Benedetto Croce: Art and intuition    20 Linguistics and Criticism    21 Antonio Gramsci: The Role of Intellectuals in Culture    22 Structuralism    23 Martin Heidegger: The Work of Art and Truth    24 Hans-Georg Gadamer: Poetry and Interpretation    25 Critical Theory: A New Attitude towards Art and Society    26 Perspectives of Post-Structuralism    27 The Practice of Deconstruction    28 Contemporary Schools and Traditions in Literary and Critical Theory    29 Postmodern and the New Character of the Literary Work    References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210770473303,"sku":"9789004393660","price":47.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aesthetics-theory-and-interpretation-of-the-literary-work-9789004393660","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}