..., it argues, is dominated by a skepticism toward the ideologically laden polarizations that once prevailed in the twentieth century. This skepticism, a critical attitude the author calls “compromise aesthetics,” reflects how the political imperative to grapple with the effects of different forms of authority...

.... Smith suggests that Rachel Kushner does the same thing in The Flamethrowers , when her photographer protagonist relinquishes her power of selective vision and embraces a “compromise aesthetics” that allows authoritarianism to flourish. JM: If there is strategy in these examples, it operates...

... a chapter on English trench poetry titled “Witnessing and Trophy Hunting” (35–55) to the description of South African actress Thoko Ntshinga, “hunt[ing] for trophies of something extreme” among brutalized Apartheid victims in preparation for a stage role (223). Perhaps war writing is truly the compromised...

... reconciles aesthetically to the world around him or her, achieving the compromise or “relative adequation” (Lukács 142) between “self” and “world” (29) that is, for Georg Lukács, the defin- ing feature of the bildungsroman genre. Stephen Dedalus’s aesthetic sensibility, by contrast, leads him...

... choreographed by, but never contained entirely within, literary language. This is a very different, much stranger mode of historicism than that which now prevails in many corners of the literary academy. High theory came with its compromises, for sure. To wax philosophical about literature is inevitably...

... common to the objects of architecture and text, one that accommodates both scientific and aesthetic ends. The acoustic hermeneutic marks the convergence of oft-estranged listening practices—one that apprehends the silent materiality of the text as if it were an audible room and, conversely, one...

...Alberto Medina Exile is a recurrent subject in Roberto Bolaño's writings. Far from lamenting the separation from the motherland, simultaneous to that from a lost generation of idealist politics and avant-garde aesthetics, Bolaño turns exile into an ethical opportunity to reconsider history...

... to organize the shower of atoms in the form of fiction with a beginning, a middle, and an end? Flaubert and Conrad had sorted out the problem by making a compromise between the truth of the interpenetration of sensory microevents and the “lie” of the plot. Through examples borrowed from Mrs. Dalloway...

... a compromised environment with the discomfort, contradiction, and misalignment it entails” (225). Or as Haraway might put it, we have to stay with the trouble. By the end, Jagoda's proposals for extreme presence begin to replicate the recent proliferation of different ways of reading in literary studies—distant...

... for such local revaluations, Cerasulo writes against what he perceives to be a literary critical bias toward “high-art” novels by authors adopting poses of aesthetic autonomy (for which Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby are the paradigm) and in favor of for-profit films, scripts, stories, and novels...

..., postmodernism marked “merely an interruption, a temporary delay in all that modernist aesthetics had still to achieve” (16). Untouched and unaffected by postmodernism, his chosen contemporary novelists “remobilise modernist narrative practices” (18), taking care to “prevent self-consciousness from compromising...

...Bruce Barnhart In “DissemiNation,” Homi Bhabha argues that the nation form is composed of two distinct and often antithetical temporalities. It is my argument here that the American twentieth century can best be understood as a compromise formation between the temporality of the novel...

..., at one point, to regard as a substitute for his own youth. This incorrigible tendency to live his life through the experiences of others might seem to conflict with the goals of Bildung or aesthetic education, since, if nothing else, the experiences that constitute such an education ought surely...

... Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic . Albany: State U of New York P, 2005 . Krook-Gilead , Dorothea . The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James . New York: Cambridge UP, 1962 . Leavis , F. R. The Great Tradition . Garden City: Doubleday, 1954 . Lewis , Pericles...

... and squarely situates Coverdale's narration outside the "neutral territory" of Hawthorne's aesthetic compromise. In an effort to shore up his narrative posi- tion, Coverdale cedes whatever authority he has managed to retain. The reader is left without a yardstick to determine what is "real" and what...

... into a singular political project or fail to miss the opportunity to point out the unexpected ironies compromising the ostensible racism in Clay’s prints. One of the highlights of this section of the book is an extended reading of Robert Montgomery Bird’s novel Sheppard Lee (1837), which makes this weirdly...

...: An Aesthetic for Democracy . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1999 . Hobsbawm Eric . “ War and Peace in the Twentieth Century .” London Review of Books 24 . 4 ( 2002 ): 16 – 18 . Jameson Fredric . “ Prussian Blues: Ein Weites Feld by Günter Grass .” London Review of Books 17 ( 1996 ): 3 – 7...

... never really told the whole story. Or as Justus Nieland puts it in his engaging new book, Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life, in “ironizing” many of modernism’s most ostentatious claims about its own aesthetic purity we learn that “modernism [was] ordinary, a day job dependent like...

... for the aesthetic ideology of Romanticism via Hegel and subsumed into national history—the horizon of epic totality—in the historical novel (Scott's Waverley ). Jameson's reversion to the later Lukács in his essay on the historical novel addresses a crisis not only of the genre but of history itself...

.... In Max Weber and more recently in Pierre Bourdieu we can trace the itinerary of the progressive autonomization of aesthet- ics in general and the literary field in particular from their historical inception. Beyond this radical historicization of the supposedly universal and transhistori- cal...