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Provides a severe critique of the contemporary anti-aesthetic movement. Points to the democratic and radical potential of the aesthetic. Forges an alternative aesthetic discourse. Draws upon a wide range of theorists and philosophers, and uses a variety of literary and artistic examples to reinforce the argument.

Table of Contents
Introduction: A Case for Rethinking the Category of the Aesthetic.

Part I: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the 'Problem' of the Aesthetic:.

1. Cultural Materialism and Culturalism.

2. The Aesthetic and the Polis: Marxist Deconstruction.

3. Writing from the Broken Middle - Post Structuralist Deconstruction.

Part II: The Poetics of Emotion:.

4. Textual Harassment: the ideology of close reading, or how close is close?.

5. Thinking Affect.

Part III: Cultural Capital, Value and a Democratic Aesthetics:.

6. Beyond the Pricing Principle.

7. And Beauty? A Dialogue.

Part IV: Feminism and Aesthetic Practice:.

8. Debating Feminisms.

9. Women's Space: Echo, Caesura, Echo.

Bibliography.

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/09/2000
      ISBN13: 9780631220534, 978-0631220534
      ISBN10: 0631220534
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      Language: reference and general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Provides a severe critique of the contemporary anti-aesthetic movement. Points to the democratic and radical potential of the aesthetic. Forges an alternative aesthetic discourse. Draws upon a wide range of theorists and philosophers, and uses a variety of literary and artistic examples to reinforce the argument.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: A Case for Rethinking the Category of the Aesthetic.

      Part I: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the 'Problem' of the Aesthetic:.

      1. Cultural Materialism and Culturalism.

      2. The Aesthetic and the Polis: Marxist Deconstruction.

      3. Writing from the Broken Middle - Post Structuralist Deconstruction.

      Part II: The Poetics of Emotion:.

      4. Textual Harassment: the ideology of close reading, or how close is close?.

      5. Thinking Affect.

      Part III: Cultural Capital, Value and a Democratic Aesthetics:.

      6. Beyond the Pricing Principle.

      7. And Beauty? A Dialogue.

      Part IV: Feminism and Aesthetic Practice:.

      8. Debating Feminisms.

      9. Women's Space: Echo, Caesura, Echo.

      Bibliography.

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