TY  - GEN
N2  - What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of the avant-garde experimentalism versus critical realism debates from the twentieth century, Geoffrey A. Baker highlights the often violent reductions at work in earlier debates. Instead of prizing one approach over the other, as many participants in those debates have done, Baker instead focuses instead on the manner in which the debate itself between these approaches continues to prove productive and enabling for politically engaged writers. This book thus offers a way beyond the simplistic polarity of realism vs. anti-realism in a study that is focused on influential strands of thought in England, France, and Germany and that covers well-known authors such as Zola, Nietzsche, Arnold, Mann, Brecht, Sartre, Adorno, Lukács, Beauvoir, Morrison, and Coetzee.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-42171-1.
DO  - doi
AB  - What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of the avant-garde experimentalism versus critical realism debates from the twentieth century, Geoffrey A. Baker highlights the often violent reductions at work in earlier debates. Instead of prizing one approach over the other, as many participants in those debates have done, Baker instead focuses instead on the manner in which the debate itself between these approaches continues to prove productive and enabling for politically engaged writers. This book thus offers a way beyond the simplistic polarity of realism vs. anti-realism in a study that is focused on influential strands of thought in England, France, and Germany and that covers well-known authors such as Zola, Nietzsche, Arnold, Mann, Brecht, Sartre, Adorno, Lukács, Beauvoir, Morrison, and Coetzee.
T1  - The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion :Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists.
DA  - 2016.
CY  - Cham :
AU  - Baker, Geoffrey.
CN  - PN851-884
PB  - Springer International Publishing,
PP  - Cham :
PY  - 2016.
ID  - 1358158
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Comparative literature.
KW  - Literature
KW  - European literature.
KW  - Literary Theory.
SN  - 9783319421711
SN  - 3319421719
TI  - The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion :Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists.
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