The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion (Hardcover)

Name: The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion
Author: Geoffrey A. Baker

Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists

von Geoffrey A. Baker Verlag: Springer International Publishing

1st ed. 2016 - Erschienen 27.12.2016 - Gebunden, 296 Seiten, 216mm x 153mm x 21mm, Sprache(n): eng

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Traces the ongoing debate between literary realism and experimentalism from the nineteenth century through the twentieth centurySets out to reexamine and define the purpose and function of literature in society, including its political meritIncorporates a wide range of past and previous texts including works by Nietzsche, Brecht, Sartre, Adorno, and Coetzee

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.

Geoffrey A. Baker is Associate Professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He is the author of Realism's Empire, in addition to articles on political aesthetics, realism, and other topics.

Geoffrey A. Baker is Associate Professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He is the author of Realism’s Empire, in addition to articles on political aesthetics, realism, and other topics.

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