The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion: Literature and Engagement Since Nietzsche and the Naturalists

by Geoffrey Baker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319825178
• ISBN13: 9783319825175
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"