Literary Aesthetics A Reader

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.

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.

Acknowledgments

viii

Introduction

1

(12)

Community, Culture, Politics

13

(66)

Lord Shaftesbury

15

(6)

Francis Hutcheson

21

(6)

Karl Marx

27

(6)

Georg Lukacs

33

(9)

Walter Benjamin

42

(7)

Herbert Marcuse

49

(6)

Theodor W. Adorno

55

(6)

Hans-Georg Gadamer

61

(6)

Louis Althusser

67

(5)

Fredric Jameson

72

(7)

Beauty and Sublimity

79

(62)

Longinus

81

(6)

Plotinus

87

(7)

David Hume

94

(4)

Edmund Burke

98

(5)

Immanuel Kant

103

(6)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

109

(7)

Walter Pater

116

(6)

Martin Heidegger

122

(6)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

128

(6)

Jean-Francois Lyotard

134

(7)

Truth, Value, Ethics

141

(62)

Plato

143

(5)

Giambattista Vico

148

(6)

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

154

(9)

Johann Georg Hamann

163

(5)

Johann Gottfried Herder

168

(8)

Friedrich Nietzsche

176

(5)

Matthew Arnold

181

(6)

Jacques Lacan

187

(5)

Rene Girard

192

(5)

Jacques Derrida

197

(6)

Literary Formalism

203

(50)

Aristotle

205

(6)

Monroe C. Beardsley

211

(6)

Benedetto Croce

217

(6)

Victor Shklovsky

223

(7)

T. S. Eliot

230

(5)

Cleanth Brooks

235

(6)

Roland Barthes

241

(5)

Gerard Genette

246

(7)

Agency, Expression

253

(46)

Friedrich Schiller

255

(4)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

259

(6)

Friedrich Schlegel

265

(5)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

270

(6)

John Dewey

276

(6)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

282

(6)

Kenneth Burke

288

(5)

Charles Altieri

293

(6)

Gender

299

(20)

Aphra Behn

301

(4)

George Eliot

305

(6)

Virginia Woolf

311

(4)

Julia Kristeva

315

(4)

Aesthetic/Anti-Aesthetic: Contemporary Debates

319

(36)

Paul de Man

321

(5)

Arthur C. Danto

326

(6)

Tony Bennett

332

(6)

Pierre Bourdieu

338

(8)

Jean-Luc Nancy

346

(9)

Index

355

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