Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill
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.
| Autor: | Green-Lewis, J. Soltan, M. |
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| ISBN: | 9781349370627 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 200 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Veröffentlicht: | 19.05.2008 |
| Schlagworte: | 42624 British and Irish Literature English literature New York Virginia Woolf Woolf |
Jennifer Green-Lewis is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. Margaret Soltan is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University.