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

Author/creator Green-Lewis, Jennifer
Other author Sołtan, Margaret.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionxviii, 200 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
Merrill, James, 1926-1995--Criticism and interpretation.
DeLillo--Don. --Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf--Virginia. --1882-1941. --Criticism and interpretation.
Merrill--James Ingram. --Criticism and interpretation.
Literature, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Literature--History and criticism. --Theory, etc.

Contents Introduction: Teaching beauty -- Beauty and emotions: introductory lessons -- Beauty barred -- "Aside from a pushing world": making space for beauty in the classroom -- "Beauty anyhow": reading Virginia 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.
Abstract This book marks the growing exhaustion with a politicized approach to literature, and celebrates the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Green-Lewis, Jennifer. Teaching beauty in Delillo, Woolf, and Merrill. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
ISBN9780230601246
ISBN0230601243

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