Literary Aesthetics A Reader [Paperback]

It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology works to reassert the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices.Part I: Introduction: What is Literary Aesthetics?:.

Part II: Community, Culture, Politics:.

Francis Hutcheson: Introduction.

From Francis Hutcheson: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Kivy.

Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury: Introduction.

From Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury: Edited with Notes by John Robertson.

Karl Marx: Introduction.

From Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works.

From Karl Marx: Early Writings: Translated and Edited by T. B. Bottomore.

Georg Lukacs: Introduction.

From The Theory of the Novel, A Historic-Philosophical Novel on the Forms of Great Epic Literature: Translated by Anna Bostock.

Chapter 19: Gyorgy Lukacs: Art as Self-Consciousness in Man's Development, in Marxism and Art: Writings in Aesthetics and Criticism: Edited by Beryl Lang and Forrest Williams.

Walter Benjamin: Introduction.

'The Author as Producer' From Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings: Trans. Edmund Jephciott.

Herbert Marcuse: Introduction.

From The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics: Herbert Marcuse.

Theodor W. Adorno: IntrolÓ1