簡介
This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse.
目錄
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.
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