Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill

By Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan

Book Overview

What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers as Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, and James Merrill, this book examines what has been lost to literature as a discipline, and to literary criticism as a practice, as a result of efforts to reduce the aesthetic to the ideological. Green-Lewis and Soltan celebrate the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies, a return all the more urgent given beauty s ability to provide not merely consolation but a sense of order and control in the context of a threatening political world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349370622
• ISBN13: 9781349370627
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"