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Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics
Hugh Grady
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Description for Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics
hardcover. This book examines Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 570.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521514750
SKU
V9780521514750
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About Hugh Grady
Hugh Grady is Professor of English at Arcadia University.
Reviews for Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics
"Grady offers a timely corrective to those who continue to view the aesthetic as an outmoded and idealized category – a straw target that was ritually bowled over in the first wave of cultural theory. Instead, he offers ‘impure aesthetics’ as a ‘place-holder’ for that which is ‘repressed elsewhere in the system’. In the process he repositions the aesthetic as ... Read more