Search Results for aesthetics and politics

... since the 1970s. The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium . By Elam Michele . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 . viii + 277 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 References Berlant Lauren . 1997 . The Queen...

...Sun Yifeng Translation has played a critical role in forming the modern Chinese literary canon and continues to stimulate its change and expansion. It is instrumental to the exchange and synthesis of foreign narrative modes and aesthetic paradigms. There are obvious political, cultural...

... of an aesthetics and politics of realism via the seminal text on caste, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935), which sets a literary precedent for the representation of untouchability. In it modernist form allows for a particular reading of untouchability; through the abstractions of both Marxism and metaphor...

... of “philosophical poetry” was thought dangerously radical not solely because of its content but because of the compound logic of its form. Effecting a more perfect union of scientific reason and the poetic imagination, Darwin's philosophical poetry conjoins as poetry the aesthetic and political aims of his work...

.... The transhistorical travels of literature are usually seen as antihistorical aesthetic transcendence, as a flight from political relevance. This essay argues, using Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s repurposing of Joseph Conrad as a case study, that the literary aspiration to write for the future is instead an invitation...

...Lukas Moe Abstract From the late 1930s through midcentury, poets in the United States reckoned with the decline of the political Left through a practice of elegy. The debates of interwar modernism shifted toward those of a postwar culture in which Depression-era aesthetics and politics came under...

... navigations generated socially engaged, innovative writing that does not simply mirror the political and aesthetic conventions of the superpowers. In this vein, Popescu develops a compelling account of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s shifting aesthetic strategies as both a product of and a critical commentary on Cold War...

..., aesthetic and political — all of which are invoked in Mun- dial’s discursive and physical movement through Paris. To sift through this entanglement, and by way of conclusion, I want to return to the conflict between Casanova’s republic of letters and Latin Americanist critiques of hegemony. Given...

... of African novels to realism is not simply naive. What happens when readers shift their attention away from the question of resistance that has so defined the field and ask instead: How does the novel produce its effects? Where does realism lie in this constellation of aesthetics and politics? Andrade’s...

...Beth Blum This essay uses “self-help” guides to James Joyce as an occasion to illuminate the buried history of modernism’s engagement with popular morality. It suggests that the birth of Joyce’s aesthetic—and, by extension, of modernism more broadly—is attributable to early twentieth-century...

.... Through multiperspectival writing, knowledge of life may be attainable without being reduced to a single political, medial, cartographical, geocultural, or aesthetic logic. As a laboratory for polylogical thinking, literature does not represent reality, as Erich Auerbach put it. Rather, it represents...

... in Bernardes’s reputation as brando (gentle), as he was said to demonstrate the brandura of their mother tongue. Yet later in the seventeenth century his fortunes sank. Though he is little esteemed today, his association with the multiple meanings of brando and brandura implicated him in important political...

... of the Italians , ca. 1824) and in the “Palinodia al marchese Gino Capponi” (“Recantation for Marchese Gino Capponi,” 1835) are intertwined with his powerful defense of the social function of poetry. Leopardi exploits the aesthetic tensions resulting from the historical rift between ancient and modern literary...

... as “sites of memory.” This discourse of genius played a keystone role in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s aesthetic and social criticism, or “genial criticism,” which exerted a deep influence on Anglophone culture. The essay concludes by assessing the overall cultural politics of genius in relation to various...

... delivered at Smith College in May, 1946, and in it Mr. Davis treats some of Swift’s major satirical pieces, chosen from different periods of his life, on three levels : aesthetic, political, and ethical. Lecture I points out how A Tale of u Tub and The Battle of the Books parody some of the literary...

... subject matter relevant to virtually any topic. Astronomy and mathematics, metaphysics and aesthetics, politics and poetry, historiography and the novel, print media and digital media: there is something here, seemingly, for everybody. Occasionally the omnipresence of the system feels like a weakness...

.... Davis treats some of Swift’s major satirical pieces, chosen from different periods of his life, on three levels : aesthetic, political, and ethical. Lecture I points out how A Tale of u Tub and The Battle of the Books parody some of the literary methods of the seventeenth century...

... Education (2003) and is author of Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature (2003), as well as of AIDS Prevention and Control in Tamil Nadu , a USAID/ CDC report based on her preliminary research on HIV/AIDS in developing countries. She is currently working on the influence...

... be appreciated, according to Wade, in selected writings of selected phi- losophes. Their organic wholeness can be confirmed through seven “self-evi- dent” categories of human existence: religion, ethics, aesthetics, politics, eco- nomics, science, and the self. Starting with the Paduan school...

...- ture is concerned, even for those who aim to defend the autonomy of the artistic work.6 I propose to return to Lukács and Adorno to rethink the political and aesthetic stakes of realism for those invested in history’s movement...