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Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal

Author : Geoff Klock
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498548490
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal written by Geoff Klock and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 19th century England, Oscar Wilde popularized aestheticism, also known as art-for-art’s-sake – the idea that art, that beauty, should not be a vehicle for morality or truth, but an end in-and-of-itself. Rothko and Jackson Pollock enthroned the idea, creating paintings that are barely graded panels of color or wild splashes. Today, pop culture is aestheticism’s true heir, from the perfect charismatic emptiness of Ocean’s Eleven to the hyper-choreographed essentially balletic movements in the best martial arts movies. But aestheticism has a dark core, one that Social Justice Activists are now gathering to combat, revealing the damaging ideology reflected in or concealed by our most beloved pop culture icons. Taking Bryan Fuller’s television version of Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter as its main text – and taking Žižek-style illustrative detours into Malcolm in the Middle, Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter, Interview with a Vampire, Dexter and more – this book marshals Walter Pater, Camille Paglia, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Kant and Plato, as well as Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Baudelaire, Beckett, Wallace Stevens and David Mamet to argue that Fuller’s show is a deceptively brilliant advance of aestheticism, both in form and content – one that investigates how deeply art-for-art’s-sake, and those of us who consciously or unconsciously worship at its teat, are necessarily entwined with evil.

Before Queer Theory

Author : Dustin Friedman
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421431475
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Before Queer Theory written by Dustin Friedman and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reimagining of how the aesthetic movement of the Victorian era ushered in modern queer theory. Late Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose. Works by these queer artists have rarely been taken seriously as contributions to the theories of sexuality or aesthetics. But in Before Queer Theory, Dustin Friedman argues that aestheticism deploys its "art for art's sake" rhetoric to establish a nascent sense of sexual identity and community. Friedman makes the case for a claim rarely articulated in either Victorian or modern culture: that intellectually, creatively, and ethically, being queer can be an advantage not in spite but because of social hostility toward nonnormative desires. Showing how aesthetes—among them Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, and Michael Field—harnessed the force that Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel called "the negative," Friedman reveals how becoming self-aware of one's sexuality through art can be both liberating and affirming of humanity's capacity for subjective autonomy. Challenging one of the central precepts of modern queer theory—the notion that the heroic subject of Enlightenment thought is merely an effect of discourse and power—Friedman develops a new framework for understanding the relationship between desire and self-determination. He also articulates an innovative, queer notion of subjective autonomy that encourages reflecting critically on one's historical moment and envisioning new modes of seeing, thinking, and living that expand the boundaries of social and intellectual structures. Before Queer Theory is an audacious reimagining that will appeal to scholars with interests in Victorian studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, and art history.

Aestheticism

Author : R. V. Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315314711
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Aestheticism written by R. V. Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969, this work explores aestheticism and its relationship with literature. After defining the term and examining the unique qualities of ‘the Aesthetes’, the book provides an overview of the literary movement from its emergence to its apotheosis in the 1890s. This book will be of particular interest to those studying 19th Century literature.

The New Aestheticism

Author : John J. Joughin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719061394
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The New Aestheticism written by John J. Joughin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text introduces the notion of a new aestheticism - 'new' insofar as it identifies a turn taken by some contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focussing on the aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture.

Women and British Aestheticism

Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918921
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Women and British Aestheticism written by Talia Schaffer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the women novelists, poets, fiction writers, essayists and critics who played a central and long-forgotten role in the history of aestheticism. It demonstrates how aestheticism offered people a set of concepts and a vocabulary for addressing issues such as gender.

After the Pre-Raphaelites

Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719054068
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book After the Pre-Raphaelites written by Elizabeth Prettejohn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centred on literary figures such as Algernon Charles Swinburn, Walter Peter and Oscar Wilde. This volume overviews parallel trends in the visual arts, including the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeil Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon and Albert Moore among others.

Aestheticism and Deconstruction

Author : Jonathan Loesberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400862213
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Aestheticism and Deconstruction written by Jonathan Loesberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered an exemplar of "Art-for-Art's Sake" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of aestheticism has since been used to attack deconstruction. Here Jonathan Loesberg boldly uses Pater's important work on society and culture, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), to argue that the habitual dismissal of deconstruction as "aestheticist" fails to recognize the genuine philosophic point and political engagement within aestheticism. Reading Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man in light of Pater's Renaissance, Loesberg begins by accepting the charge that deconstruction is "aestheticist." He goes on to show, however, that aestheticism and modern deconstruction both produce philosophical knowledge and political effect through persistent self-questioning or "self-resistance" and in the internal critique and destabilization of hegemonic truths. Throughout Loesberg reinterprets Pater and reexamines the contributions of deconstruction in relation to the apparent theoretical shift away from deconstruction and toward new historicism. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism

Author : Jason Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577115
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism written by Jason Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism presents the first sustained re-evaluation of the life and work of one of the most acclaimed sculptors of the late-Victorian period. Drawing on important new archival sources, this ground-breaking study challenges the customary assumption that Aestheticism was primarily a literary, painterly or architectural phenomena. Jason Edwards reveals both the diverse ways in which Gilbert's sculptures operated within the context of Aestheticism and also how these works provided a unique and provocative commentary on the history of masculine friendship and eroticism in the period leading up to and beyond the Wilde trials in 1895. Detailed readings are offered of the relationship of Gilbert's work to essays by Pater and Swinburne, poems, plays, and novels by Wilde and W. S. Gilbert, and paintings by Burne-Jones, Leighton, Rossetti, Solomon, Whistler, and Watts. With over 90 illustrations, including key contemporary photographs showing Gilbert's works in their original contexts, this book makes a major contribution to the field of Victorian sculpture studies.

Art and Life in Aestheticism

Author : Kelly Comfort
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230583490
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Art and Life in Aestheticism written by Kelly Comfort and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization and to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large.

The Aesthetic Movement

Author : Lionel Lambourne
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714863191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetic Movement written by Lionel Lambourne and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2011-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetic Movement swept through England in the latter part of the nineteenth century, touching every sphere of the fine and decorative arts and bringing a new freedom to all aspects of design. In architecture, the dogmatism of Gothic gave way to the charm of Queen Anne. In interiors, heavy Victorian forms were replaced by the lighter, fresher Japanese-inspired shapes; in the graphic arts, innovative methods - coupled with a new approach to form - led to the revitalization of illustration and book design. Personified by such colourful figures as James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, the movement was held together by the coherence of its philosophy and its adamant faith in elegance and richness. This beautiful and witty book will prove invaluable to enthusiasts of design and architecture and to all those intrigued by the social history of the period.

High Modernism

Author : Joshua Kavaloski
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139109
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book High Modernism written by Joshua Kavaloski and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new study that identifies a deep structure -- that of the political body -- in Frost''s poetry.

The Forgotten Female Aesthetes

Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919379
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Female Aesthetes written by Talia Schaffer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schaffer (English, Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes the complex dialogue between male and female aesthetes in late Victorian England, exploring the heretofore insufficiently recognized role that women such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, and others played in this influential late Victorian literary movement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Willa Cather and Aestheticism

Author : Ann Moseley
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611475120
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Willa Cather and Aestheticism written by Ann Moseley and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather’s fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical approaches—derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual arts, modernism, and the relationship between art and religion—this collection will increase our understanding of Cather’s aesthetic and lead to a better comprehension of her work and her life.

Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism

Author : A. Vadillo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230287964
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism written by A. Vadillo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban mass-transport. It also radically re-addresses the questions of epistemology and gender in the Victorian metropolis by mapping the epistemology of the passenger. Vadillo focuses on the lyric urban writings of Amy Levy, Alice Meynell, 'Graham R. Tomson' (Rosamund Marriott Watson) and 'Michael Field' (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper). Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Prize

Art's Undoing

Author : Forest Pyle
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 082325111X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Art's Undoing written by Forest Pyle and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art's Undoing is about radical aestheticism, the term that best describes a recurring event in some of the most powerful and resonating texts of nineteenth-century British literature.

Vernon Lee

Author : Patricia Pulham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230287522
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Vernon Lee written by Patricia Pulham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first collection of essays on the aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee, offers a wide range of critical writings by scholars. Key works are examined including Euphorion, Hauntings: Fantastic Stories and Music and Its Lovers . New light is shed on Lee's relationships with contemporaries such as Lee-Hamilton, Pater and Wilde.

Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction

Author : Kirby-Jane Hallum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317317971
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction written by Kirby-Jane Hallum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.