Publication

2008-04-15 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL10194755M
  • ISBN-100230601243
  • ISBN-139780230601246
  • Goodreads1994224
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008299754
and 2 more
  • OCLC Control Number225862764
  • Better World Books9780230601246

Classifications

  • LCCPN843-PN846PN849.G74
  • LCCPS3554.E4425 Z66 2008

Description

What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers as Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, and James Merrill, this book examines what has been lost to literature as a discipline, and to literary criticism as a practice, as a result of efforts to reduce the aesthetic to the ideological. Green-Lewis and Soltan celebrate the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies, a return all the more urgent given beauty's ability to provide not merely consolation but a sense of order and control in the context of a threatening political world.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and MerrillHardcoverPalgrave Macmillan2008-04-15

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