Feminist aesthetics and the politics of modernism
By: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780231161480; 9780231161497; 9780231530903
Subjects: Feminist criticism; Feminist theory; Aesthetics; Modernism (Aesthetics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On loss, invention, and the dilemmas of feminist aesthetics; title: Revolutionary praxis and its melancholic impasses; title: On suffrage militancy and modernism: femininity and revolt; title: Melancholia, death of art, and women's writing; title: Woolf's aesthetics of potentiality; title: Female bodies, violence, and form; title: Rethinking the form-matter divide in feminist politics and aesthetics; title: Abstract commodity form and bare life; title: Damaged materialities in political struggles and aesthetic innovations; title: Toward a feminine aesthetics of renaissance; title: Enigma of Nella Larsen: letters, curse, and black laughter.