Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill
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Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill

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Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill by J. Green-Lewis,M. Soltan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literature General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. A Note to the Reader
  8. Preface
  9. INTRODUCTION Teaching Beauty
  10. CHAPTER 1 Beauty and the Emotions:Introductory Lessons
  11. CHAPTER 2 Beauty Barred
  12. CHAPTER 3 “Aside from a Pushing World”: Making Space for Beauty in the Classroom
  13. CHAPTER 4 “Beauty Anyhow”: Reading Virginia Woolf in Vermont
  14. CHAPTER 5 Beauty and Balance:James Merrill on Santorini
  15. CHAPTER 6 Beauty After 9/11:Don DeLillo in New York
  16. CHAPTER 7 Beauty’s Return
  17. CONCLUSION Falling Towers
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index