Literary Aesthetics: A Reader

by Alan Singer

Book Overview

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 reasserts the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices.From its inception literary aesthetics has been engaged in the full range of debates generated by the criticism of culture. Unlike the more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631208690
• ISBN13: 9780631208693
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"