Shakespeare and impure aesthetics
By: Hugh Grady.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780521514750
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Aesthetics; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Art; Art in literature; Aesthetics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: impure aesthetics; title: Shakespearean aesthetic: into the woods outside Athens; title: Midsummer night's dream: eros and the aesthetic; title: Modernity, usury, and art in Timon of Athens; title: Aesthetics of death and mourning; title: Hamlet as mourning-play; title: Aesthetics of the trauerspiel; title: Hamlet as trauerspiel; title: Post-script: Hamlet, subjectivity, and aesthetics; title: Beautiful death in Romeo and Juliet; title: Conclusion: critical present.