books about: aestheticism     books:       Beauty and the Critic: Aesthetics in an Age of Cultural Studies1 review University Alabama Press, 1997 The best book I haven't read yet! I knew you would achieve great things. Hope you are happy, Cindy             After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England1 review Rutgers University Press, 1999 "Art for Art's Sake": Late -Victorian Aestheticism "A great deal has been written on Aestheticism in Victorian literature. Linda Dowling's bibliography of 1977, 'Aestheticism and Decadence,' lists 599 books and articles, and there is no slackening of interest since that date. Yet the equivalent phenomenon in the visual arts has a minuscule scholarly literature" (from the Introduction by Elizabeth Prettejohn in "After the Pre-Raphaelites"). ...             Aestheticism, Nabokov, and Lolita (Studies in American Literature)1 review David Andrews Edwin Mellen Press, 1999 Aestheticism and Nabokov This book supplies an innovative understanding of the difference between "art for art's sake" and its more general counterpart, "aestheticism." What sets this book apart from the many other books relating to Nabokov is that this astute book has a specific focus, aestheticism, that allows one to see LOLITA in a unique and acute way. The book also provides one of the first comparisons of the three ...             The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 19001 review Carsten Strathausen The University of North Carolina Press, 2003 A profound study I read this book with joy and insight. It is very well written and demonstrates in which way poetry and philosophy (around 1900) is struggling to establish an immediate, unalienated contact between the human being and a surrounding world that lost "looks" and "words."             Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose1 review Beckson Academy Chicago Publishers, 1981 A handy but uneven collection of some pretty uneven writers Almost all of the authors collected here drank deeply of French influence, and wrote under the colossal shadow of Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Mallarme. Those expecting something equal to those masters will be disappointed. Some of them came close. E.g. Theodore Wratislaw: I love you for the grief that lurks within Your languid spirit, and because you wear Corruption with a vague and ...             Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art1 review Julia Prewitt Brown University of Virginia Press, 1999 Well researched, interesting piece Wonderful for all interested in Oscar Wilde -- and to all fascinated by the struggle for balance between art and life.             Kafka's Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siecle2 reviews Mark M. Anderson Oxford University Press, USA, 1992 We call ... Anderson delivers! A Gem! While his previous two works, "From the Ground Up: A Study of the Use of Prepositions in The Dramatic Works of Nikolai Gogal," and "Metamorphosis," were both gloriously academic and even enjoyable, Mark M. Anderson scores with his newest! (Although I did find his insect to human thing interesting.) "Kafka's Clothes..." gives us an indepth view into the wardrobe of this guy Franz Kafka. I ...             Oscar Wilde & the Aesthetic Movement1 review Stuart Mason Haskell House Pub Ltd, 1970 The Price is Wrong A very slim volume at a very big price--what little information there is in it is interesting but can be found elsewhere.             Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of ...1 review Gene H. Bell-Villada University of Nebraska Press, 1996 Great book with 2 major flaws Elegantly written, thought-provoking, abrasive, and immensely informative, Bell-Villada's essay is nonetheless affected by two important flaws: its relative lack of focus, especially toward the end of the book, and its rigid application of a left v. right girdle. Bell-Villada obviously believes that the left is always good and progressive, with the possible exception of Joseph Stalin, whereas ...             Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism1 review Richard Dellamora University of North Carolina Press, 1990 Speak..and Enlighten...Sexual AND Academic Victorian Modes.. This is an incredibly insightful, well argued, and superbly interesting study of male desire and its effects on Victorian culture. A major part of the focus of this study concerns the interacting awarenesses, defenses, attacks, and deflections of male same-sex attraction AND desire, and the various responses to those two factors in relation to the classical Greek writings and art as they ...             Aestheticism and Modernism: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1900-1960 (Twentieth-Century Literature: ... Suman Gupta Routledge, 2005 This wide-ranging textbook covers the early twentieth-century to the array of modernisms emerging between the First and Second World Wars. It is suitable for use as the first part of a twentieth-century literature course, and also as a companion to courses on modernist literature and culture. The editors introduce twentieth-century debates around genre, form and content reflected in literary and critical writing of the period, as well as ...             Aestheticism and Deconstruction Jonathan Loesberg Princeton University Press, 1991 Considered an exemplar of "Art-for-Art's Sake" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of aestheticism has since been used to attack deconstruction. Here Jonathan Loesberg boldly uses Pater's important work on society and culture, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), to argue that the habitual dismissal of deconstruction as ...              search for books 1790-1990, 1900-1960, aesthetes, aesthetic, aestheticism, aesthetics, american, anthology, cosmopolitan, criticism, cultural, debating, decadents, deconstruction, habsburg, ideology, literary, literature, masculine, modernism, movement, nabokov, ornament, philosophy, politics, pre-raphaelites, raphaelites, twentieth, twentieth-century, victorian books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Friction we recommend The best book I haven't read yet! leave a comment home  impressum - about us