Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by Aubry, Timothy
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by Aubry, Timothy

Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics...
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Author: Timothy Aubry
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Language: English
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Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by Aubry, Timothy

Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

$154.20
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by Aubry, Timothy

Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

$154.20
Author: Timothy Aubry
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature's role in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, appreciating literature's formal beauty seemed frivolous and irresponsible, even complicit with the iniquities of the social order. This suspicion of aesthetics became the default posture within literary scholarship, a means of establishing the rigor of one's thought and the purity of one's political commitments. Yet as Timothy Aubry explains, aesthetic pleasure never fully disappeared from the academy. It simply went underground.

From New Criticism to the digital humanities, Aubry recasts aesthetics as the complicated, morally ambiguous, embattled yet resilient protagonist in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century literary studies. He argues that academic critics never stopped asserting preferences for certain texts, rhetorical strategies, or intellectual responses. Rather than serving as the enemy of formalism and aesthetics, political criticism enabled scholars to promote heightened experiences of perceptual acuity and complexity while adjudicating which formal strategies are best designed to bolster these experiences. Political criticism, in other words, did not eradicate but served covertly to nurture reading practices aimed at achieving aesthetic satisfaction.

Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures shows that literary studies' break with midcentury formalism was not as clean as it once appeared. Today, when so many scholars are advocating renewed attention to textual surfaces and aesthetic experiences, Aubry's work illuminates the surprisingly vast common ground between the formalists and the schools of criticism that succeeded them.

Author: Timothy Aubry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 09/03/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780674986466


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2019

About the Author
Aubry, Timothy: - Timothy Aubry is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.
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