| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Transgressions: Cultural studies and education ; volume 133
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Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 133.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Art, Beauty and Imitation in Plato's Philosophy -- Art and Imitation in Aristotle -- Horace, Pseudo-Longinus and the Aesthetics of Literature in Hellenism -- Plotinus, Neo-Platonic and Christian Conception of Beauty -- The Middle Ages and Dante Alighieri -- The Heritage of Kantian Philosophy in Romanticism -- Moritz: Beyond the Concept of Imitation -- Theory of Poetry of Early German Romanticism -- Hegel: Art as a Form of the Absolute Spirit -- Schopenhauer: Art as Disinterestedness and Knowledge of Reality -- Nietzsche: Knowledge and Art -- Symbolism and Aestheticism -- Benedetto Croce: Art and intuition -- Linguistics and Criticism -- Antonio Gramsci: The Role of Intellectuals in Culture -- Structuralism -- Martin Heidegger: The Work of Art and Truth -- Hans-Georg Gadamer: Poetry and Interpretation -- Critical Theory: A New Attitude towards Art and Society -- Perspectives of Post-Structuralism -- The Practice of Deconstruction -- Contemporary Schools and Traditions in Literary and Critical Theory -- Postmodern and the New Character of the Literary Work. |
| Summary |
This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features. In doing so, it refers to two main traditions of Western culture: one of aesthetics and the theory of art and the other of literary theory. In our postmodern world, language and artistic creation (and above all literature as the art of language) occupy a special role in understanding the human world and become existential issues. A critical attitude requires knowledge of the relevant past in order to understand what we are today. The author presents key topics, ideas, and representatives of aesthetics, theory, and the interpretation of works of art in an historical perspective, in order to explain the Western tradition with constant attention to the present condition. Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work offers an outline of essential concepts and authors of aesthetics and theories of the literary work, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development, considering their relevance to the contemporary debate, and highlighting the specificity of the experience of the art work in our present world. The best way to approach a work of art is to enjoy it. In order to enjoy a literary work, we have to consider its correct context and its specific artistic qualities. The book is conceived as a general and enjoyable introduction to the experience of the work of art in Western culture. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Criticism.
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Criticism. |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy. |
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Aesthetics in literature.
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Aesthetics in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Euron, Paolo. Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work. Boston : BRILL, ©2019 9789004393677 |
| ISBN |
9789004409231 electronic book |
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9004409238 electronic book |
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9789004393677 hardcover |
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9789004393660 paperback |
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