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OverviewThis book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird the production of the national body as ""imagined community."" Subsequent chapters on Paul de Man, Friedrich Schlegel, and Percy Shelley explore the career of the gendered body in the aesthetic tradition and the relationship among aesthetics, technics, politics, and figurative language. The author accounts for the hysteria that has characterized media representations of theory, explains why and how romanticism has remained a locus of extravagant political hopes and anxieties, and, in a sequence of close readings, uncovers the ""anaesthetic"" condition of possibility of the politics of aesthetics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marc RedfieldPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780804744607ISBN 10: 0804744602 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 30 January 2003 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a remarkable book of penetrating intelligence. Through a series of deft readings, Redfield shows us how the aesthetic is always entangled in lines of forces beyond art proper. He charts expertly how this works in key texts of the Romantic period, all the while demonstrating powerfully that what we call Romanticism is by no means simply a thing of the past. <br>--Ian Balfour, York University Redfield's indispensible book casts new and important light on what impedes modernity in the region of the aesthetic, and, by its brilliant example, demonstrates what comes of responding to that occlusion with an ethics of reading. -- Studies in Romanticism Author InformationMarc Redfield is Professor of English and holder of the John and Lillian Maguire Chair in the Humanities at the Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman which was awarded the MLA Prize for a First Book in 1997. He has also coedited, with Janet Brodie, High Anxieties: Culture Studies in Addiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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