Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures
Author | : Timothy Aubry |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674988965 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674988965 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Download or read book Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures written by Timothy Aubry and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For scholars invested in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, the beauty of literature seemed frivolous, even complicit with social iniquities. Suspicion of aesthetics became a way to establish the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s politics. Yet aesthetic pleasure never disappeared, Timothy Aubrey writes. It went underground.