Aestheticism and Deconstruction : : Pater, Derrida, and de Man / / Jonathan Loesberg.
Considered an exemplar of "Art-for-Art's Sake" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of aestheticism has since been used to attack deconstruction. Here Jonathan Loesberg bol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Aestheticism of Deconstruction
- One. What Is Art for Art's Sake and How Could It Be Anything Else?
- Two. Studies in the Histories of The Renaissance
- Three. Deconstruction: Foundations and Literary Language
- Four. Deconstructive Aesthetics: Literary Language, History, Ideology
- Five. Aesthetic Analysis and Political Critique
- Afterword. Aesthetidsm, Journalism, and de Man's Wartime Writings
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index