Title: Teaching beauty in Delillo, Woolf, and Merrill
Description: 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.
Subjects: Aesthetics in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Aesthetics, Critical pedagogy, Modern Literature, History and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature, Schönheit