Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures / / Timothy Aubry.
For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disapp...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Intellectual Critics and the Pleasures of Complexity
- 2. Appetite for Deconstruction
- 3. New Historicism and the Aesthetics of the Archive
- 4. Lolita and the Stakes of Form
- 5. Why Is Beloved So Universally Beloved?
- Conclusion. Reading the Surface in the Distance
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index