Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics
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- Author: Hugh Grady, Arcadia University, Pennsylvania
- Date Published: August 2012
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- isbn: 9781107404205
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Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning as resources for art. Hugh Grady draws on a tradition of aesthetic theorists who understand art as always formed in a specific historical moment but as also distanced from its context through its form and Utopian projections. Grady sees A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet as displaying these qualities, showing aesthetic theory's usefulness for close readings of the plays. The book argues that such social-minded 'impure aesthetics' can revitalize the political impulses of the new historicism while opening up a new aesthetic dimension in the current discussion of Shakespeare.
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- Date Published: August 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107404205
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: impure aesthetics
Part I. A Shakespearean Aesthetic: Into the Woods outside Athens:
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream - eros and the aesthetic
3. Modernity, usury, and art in Timon of Athens
Part II. The Aesthetics of Death and Mourning:
4. Hamlet as mourning play
5. Beautiful death in Romeo and Juliet
Conclusion: the critical present
Bibliography
Index.
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