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Teaching beauty in Delillo, Woolf, and Merrill

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Teaching beauty in Delillo, Woolf, and MerrillJennifer Green-Lewisand Margaret Soltan.
Author:	Green-Lewis, Jennifer.
other author:	So±tan, Margaret.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	xviii, 200 p.
Subject:	Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.20th century
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230612136

Teaching beauty in Delillo, Woolf, and Merrill
Green-Lewis, Jennifer.

Teaching beauty in Delillo, Woolf, and Merrill[electronic resource] /Jennifer Green-Lewisand Margaret Soltan. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xviii, 200 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

Introduction: Teaching beauty -- Beauty and emotions: introductory lessons -- Beauty barred -- "Aside from a pushing world": making space for beauty in the classroom -- "Beauty anyhow": readingVirginia Woolf in Vermont -- Beauty and balance: James Merrill on Santorini -- Beauty after 9/11: Don DeLillo in New York -- Beauty's return -- Conclusion: Falling towers.

What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroomturn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers as Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, and James Merrill, this book examines what has beenlost 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 givenbeauty's ability to provide not merely consolation but a sense of order and control in the context ofa threatening political world.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230612136

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230612136doiSubjects--Personal Names:

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Woolf, Virginia,
1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

174193
Literature, Modern
--History and criticism.--20th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN771 / .G73 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 801.95

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