Beauty and the Critic

by Soderholm, James

• ISBN13: 9780817308919
• ISBN10: 0817308911
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

This call to restore a sense of beauty to our culture will serve as a bellwether of the future of literary studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Criticism: An Art or a Craft?	p. 13
What's Art Got to Do with It? The Status of the Subject of the Humanities in an Age of Cultural Studies	p. 21
The Alice Fallacy; or, Only God Can Make A Tree: A Dialogue of Pleasure and Instruction	p. 46
Oscar Wilde: The Man of Soul Under Socialism	p. 74
Recuperating the Aesthetic: Contemporary Approaches and the Case of Adorno	p. 94
On the Sublime of Self-disgust; or, How to Save the Sublime from Narcissistic Sublimation	p. 113
Aesthetics of the Dust; or, In the Beginning Was the Land	p. 142
The Poetry Professors: Literary Imitation, Untutored Genius, and Cultural Identity	p. 162
Let the Fresh Air In: Graduate Studies in the Humanities	p. 190
Tales of Two Disciplines	p. 208
Contributors	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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