The radical aesthetic /

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Author / Creator:Armstrong, Isobel.
Imprint:Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Description:vii, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4370143
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ISBN:0631220526 (alk. paper)
0631220534 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-269) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Bibliography