The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary
debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the
role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and
reflect on its recuperation in the field.
* * Contains first-rate, original essays that analyze the role of
aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on
its recuperation in the field.
* Contributors are leading scholars, internationally based.
* Includes substantial introductory material by the editor.
Содержание
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Engaging the Aesthetic (Michael Berube).
1 The Role of Aesthetics in Cultural Studies (Rita Felski).
2 On Literature in Cultural Studies (John Frow).
3 Excessive Practices: Aesthetics, Erotica, and Cultural Studies
(Jane Juffer).
4 The Burden of Culture (Jonathan Sterne).
5 Cultural Studies and the Questions of Pleasure and Value
(David Shumway).
6 ‘I Give It a 94. It’s Got a Good Beat and You Can Dance to
It’: Valuing Popular Music (David Sanjek).
7 Cultural Studies and the New Belletrism (Barry Faulk).
8 Beauty on My Mind: Reading Literature in an Age of Cultural
Studies (Irene Kacandes).
9 Inventing Culture (Behind the Garage Door) (Steven Rubio).
10 The Cringe Factor (Laura Kipnis).
Index.
Об авторе
Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon (1992); Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996); and The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (1998).
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