Feminist aesthetics and the politics of modernism /

Feminist aesthetics and the politics of modernism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska, 1961- author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Columbia Themes in Philosophy Columbia themes in philosophy.
Subject:	Feminist criticism. Aesthetics. Modernism (Aesthetics) Feminist theory. Aesthetics. Feminist criticism. Feminist theory. Modernism (Aesthetics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11161335

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ISBN:	9780231530903 0231530900 9780231161480 0231161484 9780231161497 0231161492
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Despite the prominence of feminist theory in literary, film, and visual arts critique, feminist theories of aesthetics remain rare, obscuring a crucial chapter in women's history. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek redresses this oversight through a full articulation of feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. Her study is one of the first to combine an in-depth engagement with philosophical aesthetics, especially the work of Theodor W. Adorno, with women's literary modernism, particularly.
Other form:	Print version: Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska, 1961- Feminist aesthetics and the politics of modernism. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231161480
Standard no.:	10.7312/ziar16148

Table of Contents:

On loss, invention, and the dilemmas of feminist aesthetics
Revolutionary praxis and its melancholic impasses
On suffrage militancy and modernism: femininity and revolt
Melancholia, death of art, and women's writing
Woolf's aesthetics of potentiality
Female bodies, violence, and form
Rethinking the form-matter divide in feminist politics and aesthetics
Abstract commodity form and bare life
Damaged materialities in political struggles and aesthetic innovations
Toward a feminine aesthetics of renaissance
Enigma of Nella Larsen: letters, curse, and black laughter.