The Aesthetics of Discontent
Title | The Aesthetics of Discontent PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Marra |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780824813642 |
This series of interpretations of selected classics examines premodern Japanese literature from the perspective of conflictual ideologies. Professor Marra's analysis of such works as the Ise Monogatari, the Hojoki, and Tsurezuregusa highlights the existence of discontent in the authors of the so-called high tradition and explains the means these authors used to express their social dissatisfaction in literary texts. His aim is to recover the validity of the historicist approach in literary studies by focusing on the importance of the context in the formation of the text. The text is seen as a product of ideological manipulation on the part of those who, by reading, writing or editing, appropriate it according to specific and private concerns. Professor Marra displays both sensitivity to the texts and a comprehensive grasp of Japanese and Western scholarship in making his argument that aesthetics and politics in premodern Japanese literature are mutually defining.
Art & Discontent
Title | Art & Discontent PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas McEvilley |
Publisher | Kingston, N.Y. : Documentext, McPherson & Company |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780929701134 |
Aesthetics and Its Discontents
Title | Aesthetics and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Rancière |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2009-08-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0745646301 |
Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution. Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all forms of militant or commercial compromise the autonomy that makes it a promise of emancipation. This constitutive tension sheds light on the paradoxes and transformations of critical art. It also makes it possible to understand why today's calls to free art from aesthetics are misguided and lead to a smothering of both aesthetics and politics in ethics.
Aesthetics and Its Discontents
Title | Aesthetics and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Rancière |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2009-08-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 074564631X |
Translated by Steven Corcoran Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution. Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all forms of militant or commercial compromise the autonomy that makes it a promise of emancipation. This constitutive tension sheds light on the paradoxes and transformations of critical art. It also makes it possible to understand why today?s calls to free art from aesthetics are misguided and lead to a smothering of both aesthetics and politics in ethics.
The Aesthetics of Discontent
Title | The Aesthetics of Discontent PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Marra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Japanese literature |
ISBN |
The Aesthetics of Discontent
Title | The Aesthetics of Discontent PDF eBook |
Author | Michael F. Marra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Ideology in literature |
ISBN |
Sacred Discontent
Title | Sacred Discontent PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert N. Schneidau |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780520031654 |