Aesthetics and the End(s) of American Cultural Studies: Volume 76

By Christopher Castiglia

Reclaiming the aesthetic, emphasizing the "literary" in literary studies, conceptualizing a new formalism: such recent appeals represent the latest turn in ongoing debates about art and aesthetic ideology. Intervening in these debates--often characterized by predictable oppositions that set art against social action, structure against cultural practice, and the so-called imaginaries of affect against the putative reality of politics--this special issue of American Literature asks, what's new about the "new aesthetics," and what implications does this shifting ideology have for social and cultural thinking?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822366401
• ISBN13: 9780822366409
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"