Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill

Green-Lewis, J./ Soltan, M.

Palgrave Macmillan（2008/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781349370627
• DDC分類 810

Full Description

What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers as Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, and James Merrill, this book examines what has been lost to literature as a discipline, and to literary criticism as a practice, as a result of efforts to reduce the aesthetic to the ideological. Green-Lewis and Soltan celebrate the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies, a return all the more urgent given beauty s ability to provide not merely consolation but a sense of order and control in the context of a threatening political world.

Contents

Teaching Beauty Beauty and the Emotions: Introductory Lessons Beauty Denied 'Aside from a Pushing World': Making Space for Beauty in the Classroom 'Beauty Anyhow': Virginia Woolf in Vermont Beauty and Balance: James Merrill on Santorini Beauty after 9/11: Don DeLillo in New York Beauty's Return Conclusion: Falling Towers