Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts
Title | Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Jaroslav Kušnír |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
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Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts
Title | Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Jaroslav Kušnír |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2005-12-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 389821513X |
This book includes contributions by African, East and West European, Asian and North American scholars which deal with and compare ideological and non-ideological approaches to the analysis of literary, artistic as well as popular works (popular music) mostly by American authors. Most of the essays deal with a way various aspects of American identity are depicted, represented, treated, ideologized and aestheticized in different literary genres, forms of art and media. The contributions offer multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative perspectives and represent a diversity of scholarly voices ranging from the general discussion on the relationship between ideology and art (Anton Pokrivčák), ideology and multiculturalism (Cristina Garrigós). They also give the analysis of poetry (Pokrivčák, Obododima Oha), postmodern fiction (Pi-Hua Ni, Cristina Garrigós), drama (Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Csaba Csapó) as well as the comparative analysis of the depiction of the identity of North American Indians in such different media as literature and film (Michal Peprník). In addition to this, the book includes the analysis of Black rap music (Wojciech Kallas).
Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts
Title | Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Jaroslav Kušnír |
Publisher | ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2012-01-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3838255135 |
This book includes contributions by African, East and West European, Asian and North American scholars which deal with and compare ideological and non-ideological approaches to the analysis of literary, artistic as well as popular works (popular music) mostly by American authors. Most of the essays deal with a way various aspects of American identity are depicted, represented, treated, ideologized and aestheticized in different literary genres, forms of art and media. The contributions offer multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative perspectives and represent a diversity of scholarly voices ranging from the general discussion on the relationship between ideology and art (Anton Pokrivčák), ideology and multiculturalism (Cristina Garrigós). They also give the analysis of poetry (Pokrivčák, Obododima Oha), postmodern fiction (Pi-Hua Ni, Cristina Garrigós), drama (Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Csaba Csapó) as well as the comparative analysis of the depiction of the identity of North American Indians in such different media as literature and film (Michal Peprník). In addition to this, the book includes the analysis of Black rap music (Wojciech Kallas).
American Catholic Arts and Fictions
Title | American Catholic Arts and Fictions PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Giles |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 1992-06-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521417775 |
Examines how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds.
American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions
Title | American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions PDF eBook |
Author | Cindy Weinstein |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0231156170 |
These diverse essays recast the place of aesthetics in production & consumption of American literature. Contributors showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, & conceptions of identity into their critiques, combining close readings of individual works & authors with theoretical discussions.
Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama
Title | Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama PDF eBook |
Author | René Agostini |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2015-09-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1443882313 |
The conviction that the development and promotion of the arts, humanities and culture through the study of literature and the aesthetic are the fundamental constituents of any progress in society is at the heart of this volume. The essays gathered here explore the role of the imagination and aesthetic awareness in an age when the corporatization of knowledge is in the process of transforming literary studies, and political commitment is in danger of disappearing behind a supposedly post-ideological late-capitalist consensus. The main focus of the volume is the mutual implication of aesthetics and ideology and the status and value of different types of art within the political arena. Challenging issues in contemporary aesthetics are examined within the wider framework of current debates on the disappearance of the real, the crisis in representation, and the use of new media. The wide range of examples collected here, stretching from experimental poetry in post-war Germany, political commitment in twentieth-century French theatre, and countercultural Rumanian theatre under Ceaușescu, to Neo-Victorian fiction, Verbatim theatre in the UK, and political theatre for the masses in Estonia, vouchsafe unique insights into the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and the practical consequences thereof. As such, the volume opens up a space for a meaningful engagement with authentic forms of art from inside and outside the Anglosphere, and, ultimately, uses these examples as a platform from which to imagine some form of “aesthethics”, representing an ideal union of aesthetics and ideology. This concept, first coined by the French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, will prove to be relevant both within the parameters of the examples discussed here, but also beyond, for the contributors to this volume are unanimous in refusing to believe that aesthetics and ideology can exist one without the other, and in recognizing the centrality of ethics in any discussion of these notions.
Ideology and Classic American Literature
Title | Ideology and Classic American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521273091 |
For more than a decade, Americanists have been concerned with the problem of ideology, and have undertaken a broad reassessment of American literature and culture. This volume brings together some of the best work in this area.