Reading in detail: Aesthetics and the feminine

by Naomi Schor

Book Overview

Who cares about details? As Naomi Schor explains in her highly influential book, we do-but it has not always been so. The interest in detail--in art, in literature, and as an aesthetic category--is the product of the decline of classicism and the rise of realism. But the story of the detail is as political as it is aesthetic. Secularization, the disciplining of society, the rise of consumerism, the invention of the quotidian, have all brought detail...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0416015212
• ISBN13: 9780416015218
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Methuen & Co.
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.9" x 9.1"