Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion

Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion

Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists

Baker, Geoffrey A.

Springer International Publishing AG

12/2016

279

Dura

Inglês

9783319421704

15 a 20 dias

4854


ebook

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Introduction: Literary Activism, Clarity and Confusion.- Chapter 1: "For Love of Clarity": Emile Zola, Practice, and the Political Potential of Realistic Literature.- Chapter 2: Grounds for Confusion: Nietzsche, Theory, and the Political Potential of Anti-Realism.- Chapter 3: Between Theory and Practice: Matthew Arnold, Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, and the Purpose of the Intellectual.- Chapter 4: "Different Kinds of Clarity": Science, Sense, and Utilitarian Realism in Bertolt Brecht.- Chapter 5: Pressing Engagement: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Aesthetic Problem of the Political.- Chapter 6: An Other Engagement: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethical Problem of the Political.- Conclusion: Contemporary Engagements with Clarity and Confusion.- Works Cited.
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Friedrich Nietzsche;Emile Zola;Naturalism;European Literature;Literary Aesthetics