Aesthetics and the Literature of Ideas: Essays in Honor of A. Owen AldridgeFrançois Jost, Melvin J. Friedman This collection explores the aesthetic principles that pervade all sectors of human activities involving intellectual perceptiveness. The three areas of investigation are aesthetics and rationality in the realm of literary history and criticism; the genres and meanings in the metamorphosis of the arts: and aesthetics in literature, society, and politics. |
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... sense , from literary value , though distinctions can and must be made . Such elimination would not work for Greek drama or medieval literature , for The Tale of Genji , for Voltaire or Schiller or Wordsworth or The Dream of the Red ...
... sense , from literary value , though distinctions can and must be made . Such elimination would not work for Greek drama or medieval literature , for The Tale of Genji , for Voltaire or Schiller or Wordsworth or The Dream of the Red ...
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... sense , but common sense does not seem to count for much these days in the pursuit of literary scholarship . Less overt , more implicit , is a current preference for certain modes that will equate the density and complexity of the mode ...
... sense , but common sense does not seem to count for much these days in the pursuit of literary scholarship . Less overt , more implicit , is a current preference for certain modes that will equate the density and complexity of the mode ...
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... sense of being moralistic , instructive , and evaluative ; in this very didactic sense , both literatures function in an integrative role , affiliating themselves with the political , philosophical , and educational ideas of their ...
... sense of being moralistic , instructive , and evaluative ; in this very didactic sense , both literatures function in an integrative role , affiliating themselves with the political , philosophical , and educational ideas of their ...
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