Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion

Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists

AvGeoffrey A. Baker

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Instead of prizing one approach over the other, as many participants in those debates have done, Baker focuses on the manner in which the debate itself between these approaches continues to prove productive and enabling for politically engaged writers.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-27
Mått:148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Antal sidor:279
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319421704

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Geoffrey A. Baker is Associate Professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He is the author of Realism’s Empire, in addition to articles on political aesthetics, realism, and other topics.

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Introduction: Literary Activism, Clarity and Confusion.- Chapter 1: “For Love of Clarity”: Émile Zola, Practice, and the Political Potential of Realistic Literature.- Chapter 2: Grounds for Confusion: Nietzsche, Theory, and the Political Potential of Anti-Realism.- Chapter 3: Between Theory and Practice: Matthew Arnold, Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, and the Purpose of the Intellectual.- Chapter 4: “Different Kinds of Clarity”: Science, Sense, and Utilitarian Realism in Bertolt Brecht.- Chapter 5: Pressing Engagement: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Aesthetic Problem of the Political.- Chapter 6: An Other Engagement: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethical Problem of the Political.- Conclusion: Contemporary Engagements with Clarity and Confusion.- Works Cited.