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9%OFFMarc Redfield - The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism - 9780804747509 - V9780804747509
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The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

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Description for The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism Paperback. This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.

This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird the production of the national body as “imagined community.” Subsequent chapters on Paul de Man, Friedrich Schlegel, and Percy Shelley explore the career of the gendered body in the aesthetic tradition and the relationship among aesthetics, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804747509
SKU
V9780804747509
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Ref
99-50

About Marc Redfield
Marc Redfield is Professor of English and holder of the John and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at the Claremont Graduate University.

Reviews for The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism
"This is a remarkable book of penetrating intelligence. Through a series of deft readings, Redfield shows us how the aesthetic is always entangled in lines of forces beyond art proper. He charts expertly how this works in key texts of the Romantic period, all the while demonstrating powerfully that what we call Romanticism is by no means simply a thing ... Read more

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