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9780192844859

The Question of the Aesthetic

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  • ISBN13:

    9780192844859

  • ISBN10:

    0192844857

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-10-14
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


George Levine, Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University

George Levine is Emeritus Professor at Rutgers University. His work has focused on Victorian fiction, George Eliot, and Darwin and his relation to the novel and, more recently, on the relation of science to literature and aesthetics, and secularism.

Table of Contents


Introduction, George Levine
PART 1
1. The Experience of Art, Derek Attridge
2. The Ontology of Artworlds: A Posthuman, Coevolutionary Framework for Aesthetics, Art History, and Art Criticism, Richard Prum
PART 2
3. Beauty and her Sisters in the Nineteenth Century and After, Jonah Siegel
4. Gates of Horn in Ivory Towers: On Beauty's Truth, Herbert Tucker
PART 3
5. What we do: The New this and the New That, Isobel Armstrong
6. Is the Migrant a Metaphor? On Representation of Migration in Contemporary Art, Film, and Literature, Josephine McDonagh
7. Aesthetic Poison, Edgar Garcia
8. Aesthetic Criticism and the Post-Colonial, Ankhi Mukherjee
PART 4
9. On the Last Paragraph of the 1859 Edition of Darwin's Origin of Species, Myra Jehlen
10. Wild Aesthetics: D.H. Lawrence's 'Art for My Sake', Philip Davis
11. 'whose eye darted contagious fire': Aesthetic Form, Performative Action, and Paradise Lost, Richard Eldridge
12. Tennyson's Tears and Brooks's Motivations, Susan J. Wolfson
PART 5
13. Do Birds Disagree?: The Place of Aesthetic Value in Advocacy for the Humanities, Helen Small

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