Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics by Hugh GradyShakespeare and Impure Aesthetics explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare’s plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning as resources for art. Hugh Grady draws on a tradition of aesthetic theorists who understand art as always formed in a specific historical moment but as also distanced from its context through its form and Utopian projections.
This book considers Spielberg's movies using key philosophical cornerstones: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, axiology, aesthetics, and political philosophy, among others.
Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma
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Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma studies the intersections of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Over the course of her writing career, each came to confront those aspects of her culture and her personal history that resulted in a degraded sense of female sexuality. In particular, both explored the ways in which traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their relationship to female corporeality and fiction writing.
What is the role of art in everyday life? Art writing normally contrasts art with "everyday life." This book explores art as integral to the everyday life of modern society, providing materials to represent class and conflict, to explore sex and sexuality, and to think about modern industry and economic relationships.
One of the fundamental ideas of chaos theory is the "butterfly
effect," first proposed by Edward Lorenz in the 1960s: a single, small
event may yield exponentially enlarged effects, just as the single flap
of a butterfly's wings may produce vast, unpredictable ramifications in
weather patterns far away. Theorists of literature and culture who
derive their conceptual framework from chaos theory are now performing
the butterfly effect: a few suggestions on the part of certain
physicists and biologists have inspired an exponentially growing
literature of metaphorical applications in faraway fields. The
Aesthetics of Chaos makes the salutory attempt to restrain, summarize,
and unify the multivarious aesthetic theories of chaos.