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This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of the aesthetic at the same time as it demonstrates that focus on the aesthetic does not preclude attention of the urgent questions with which works of art consistently engaged. It argues that attention to the aesthetic does not diminish attention to these larger issues, but in effect increases the power both of art and criticism to engage them fruitfully.
Introduction / George Levine -- 1. Two theories -- 1. The Experience of Art / Derek Attridge -- 2. The Ontology of Artworlds: A Post-Human, Coevolutionary Framework for Aesthetics, Art History, and Art Criticism / Richard O. Prum -- 2. Beauty and utility -- 3. Beauty and Her Sisters in the Nineteenth Century and After / Jonah Siegel -- 4. Gates of Horn in Ivory Towers: On Beauty's Truth / Herbert F. Tucker -- 3. Aesthetics and politics -- 5. What We Do: The New This and the New That / Isobel Armstrong -- 6. Can Migrants Be Seen? Some Representations of Migration in Contemporary Art, Film, and Literature / Josephine McDonagh -- 7. Aesthetic Poison / Edgar Garcia -- 8. Aesthetic Criticism and the Postcolonial / Ankhi Mukherjee -- 4. Reading closely: form and meaning -- 9. On the Last Paragraph of the 1859 Edition of Darwin's Origin of Species / Myra Jehlen -- 10. Wild Aesthetics: D.H. Lawrence's "Art for My Sake" / Philip Davis -- 11. "Whose Eye Darted Contagious Fire": Aesthetic Form, Performative Action, and Paradise Lost / Richard Eldridge -- 12. Tennyson's Tears, Brooks's Motivations / Susan J. Wolfson -- 5. Overview -- 13. Do Birds Disagree? The Place of Aesthetic Value in Advocacy for the Humanities / Helen Small.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-279) and index.