Geoffrey A Baker

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The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion: Literature and Engagement Since Nietzsche and the Naturalists (2016)Hardcover - 2016, 27 December 2016

The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion: Literature and Engagement Since Nietzsche and the Naturalists (2016)
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Part of Series
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Print Length
279 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
27 Dec 2016
ISBN-10
3319421700
ISBN-13
9783319421704

Description

What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of the avant-garde experimentalism versus critical realism debates from the twentieth century, Geoffrey A. Baker highlights the often violent reductions at work in earlier debates. Instead of prizing one approach over the other, as many participants in those debates have done, Baker focuses on the manner in which the debate itself between these approaches continues to prove productive and enabling for politically engaged writers. This book thus offers a way beyond the simplistic polarity of realism vs. anti-realism in a study that is focused on influential strands of thought in England, France, and Germany and that covers well-known authors such as Zola, Nietzsche, Arnold, Mann, Brecht, Sartre, Adorno, Lukács, Beauvoir, Morrison, and Coetzee.

Product Details

Author:
Geoffrey A Baker
Book Edition:
2016
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
27 December 2016
Dimensions:
21.08 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
3319421700
ISBN-13:
9783319421704
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
279
Weight:
453.59 gm

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