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This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features. In doing so, it refers to two main traditions of Western culture: one of aesthetics and the theory of art and the other of literary theory. In our postmodern world, language and artistic creation (and above all literature as the art of language) occupy a special role in understanding the human world and become existential issues. A critical attitude requires knowledge of the relevant past in order to understand what we are today. The author presents key topics, ideas, and representatives of aesthetics, theory, and the interpretation of works of art in an historical perspective, in order to explain the Western tradition with constant attention to the present condition.
Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work offers an outline of essential concepts and authors of aesthetics and theories of the literary work, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development, considering their relevance to the contemporary debate, and highlighting the specificity of the experience of the art work in our present world. The best way to approach a work of art is to enjoy it. In order to enjoy a literary work, we have to consider its correct context and its specific artistic qualities. The book is conceived as a general and enjoyable introduction to the experience of the work of art in Western culture.
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Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work offers an outline of essential concepts and authors of aesthetics and theories of the literary work, presenting basic topics and ideas in their historical context and development, considering their relevance to the contemporary debate, and highlighting the specificity of the experience of the art work in our present world. The best way to approach a work of art is to enjoy it. In order to enjoy a literary work, we have to consider its correct context and its specific artistic qualities. The book is conceived as a general and enjoyable introduction to the experience of the work of art in Western culture.
See inside the book.
Price: $62.00
Pages: 238
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education
Publication Date:
22 August 2019
ISBN: 9789004393660
Format: Paperback
'Paolo Euron manages to present a coherent and compact history of western critical thought, retaining a sense of its magnitude and complexity and the indefinable course of its development over two thousand years. [...] It is the quality of this historical and humanistic vision that makes Paolo Euron’s book lively and appealing and refreshingly different from much of the current professional work in this field. [...] Euron’s book is a highly readable and competent introduction to western literary criticism and the philosophy of aesthetics. It combines a firm grasp of the material with accuracy and rigour of analysis and clarity in presentation." S. Sreenivasan, in Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, Jan-June 2020.
Paolo Euron, Ph.D., University of Bologna, is Assistant Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He has published books and articles on aesthetics, philosophy and literature, including 'Beauty and Aesthetic Experience in Theravada Buddhism' in Contemporary Buddhism (Routledge, 2017) and 'The History of Italian and Western Ideas in the Teaching of Culture, Art and Literature' in Strumenti Critici (Il Mulino, 2017).