The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2004
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-22306-1 (ISBN)

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The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. This collection of essays analyzes the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflects on its recuperation in the field.

The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on its recuperation in the field.

Contains first-rate, original essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on its recuperation in the field.
Contributors are leading scholars, internationally based.
Includes substantial introductory material by the editor.

Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon (1992); Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996); and The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (1998).

Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Engaging the Aesthetic (Michael Berube).

1 The Role of Aesthetics in Cultural Studies (Rita Felski).

2 On Literature in Cultural Studies (John Frow).

3 Excessive Practices: Aesthetics, Erotica, and Cultural Studies (Jane Juffer).

4 The Burden of Culture (Jonathan Sterne).

5 Cultural Studies and the Questions of Pleasure and Value (David Shumway).

6 "I Give It a 94. It's Got a Good Beat and You Can Dance to It": Valuing Popular Music (David Sanjek).

7 Cultural Studies and the New Belletrism (Barry Faulk).

8 Beauty on My Mind: Reading Literature in an Age of Cultural Studies (Irene Kacandes).

9 Inventing Culture (Behind the Garage Door) (Steven Rubio).

10 The Cringe Factor (Laura Kipnis).

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.8.2004
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 231 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-631-22306-1 / 0631223061
ISBN-13	978-0-631-22306-1 / 9780631223061
Zustand	Neuware