Ziarek Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-53090-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Feministische Perspektiven in den Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: On Loss
1 Revolutionary Praxis and Its Melancholic Impasses
1. On Suffrage Militancy and Modernism: Femininity and Revolt
2. Melancholia
3. Woolf's Aesthetics of Potentiality
2 Female Bodies
Introduction: Rethinking the Form/Matter Divide in Feminist Politics and Aesthetics
4. Abstract Commodity Form and Bare Life
5. Damaged Materialities in Political Struggles and Aesthetic Innovations
3 Toward a Feminine Aesthetics of Renaissance
6. The Enigma of Nella Larsen: Letters
Notes
Index

Leseproben

Read the introduction, "On Loss, Invention, and the Dilemmas of Feminist Aesthetics" (to view in full screen, click on icon in bottom right-hand corner)

Über Autor(innen)

Ewa Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. She is the author of An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy and coeditor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis and Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics.