170 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Aesthetic criticism has suffered a poor reputation over the last 120 years. Often dismissing it in the form of caricature, a wave of the hand at ‘mere aestheticism’ with its apparent dogma of ‘art for art’s sake’, we rarely take it seriously as an approach to the arts today, and lose sight of its importance in its own time. This book, however, offers an account of aesthetic criticism as a far... Read more
Introduction: Against Caricature
1. Appreciation: Form and Wholeness
2. The Historic Sense
3. The Proper Point of View: Art for Art’s Sake and Critical Ethics
4. Aestheticism, Spirituality, and Metaphysics
Conclusion: Beauty and the Literary Sense
Biography
James Dowthwaite is Junior Professor for English Literature and Culture at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His first book, Ezra Pound and 20th Century Theories of Language: Faith with the Word (Routledge, 2019), won the Ezra Pound Society Book Award.
