Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Theory
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Author: Timothy Aubry ISBN: 9780674988965
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: September 3, 2018
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Timothy Aubry
ISBN: 9780674988965
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: September 3, 2018
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground.

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For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground.

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