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Aesthetic Afterlives - Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R5,027

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Aesthetic Afterlives - Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty (Hardcover, New): Andrew Eastham

Aesthetic Afterlives - Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty (Hardcover, New)

Andrew Eastham

Series: Continuum Literary Studies

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Since the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are integral to modern literary practice. Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter Pater and Henry James to Samuel Beckett and Alan Hollinghurst, this study investigates the dialectical position of irony in Aestheticism and its twentieth-century afterlives.

Aesthetic Afterlives constructs a far-reaching theoretical narrative by positioning Victorian Aestheticism as the basis of Literary Modernity. Aestheticism's cultivation of irony and reflexive detachment was central to this legacy, but it was also the focus of its own self-critique. Anxieties about the concept and practice of irony persisted through Modernism, and have recently been positioned in Hollinghurst's work as a symptom of the political stasis within post-modern culture. Referring to the recent debates about the 'new aestheticism' and the politics of aesthetics, Eastham asks how a utopian Aestheticism can be reconstructed from the problematics of irony and aesthetic autonomy that haunted writers from Pater to Adorno.

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Imprint:	Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Continuum Literary Studies
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	December 2011
Authors:	Andrew Eastham
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	272
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8264-4398-4
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Promotions
LSN:	0-8264-4398-2
Barcode:	9780826443984