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UK funding (£20,470): The Literary Aesthetic; or, What Remains of Romanticism? Ukri8 Jan 2007 UK Research and Innovation, United Kingdom
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The Literary Aesthetic; or, What Remains of Romanticism?
| Abstract | The Literary Aesthetic; or, What Remains of Romanticism? Asks what it might mean for criticism to approach works of literature in terms of the categories of aesthetics that emerged during the eighteenth century and continue to be deployed, albeit in substantially modified forms, in the work of contemporary continental theorists and philosophers. The rise of literary theory in Britain and America during the 1980s and 1990s questioned and, to a large extent, side-lined earlier notions of literary aesthetics that tended to rely on universal and canonical accounts of 'aesthetic value'. However, more recently, theorists and critics have begun to return to explore more philosophically sophisticated accounts of aesthetics, often those developed during the Romantic period, as a way of attempting to understand literature's ability to transform rather than simply represent experience. The past few years have seen the publication of a number of studies in this area, and a central aim of the proposed project is to develop a systematic investigation of the origins, practices and implications of what has come to be called 'the new aestheticism'. Beginning with a detailed discussion of the rise of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and its subsequent development in German Idealism and Romanticism, it will go on to analyse the ways in which the aesthetic categories generated there provide important resources for contemporary discussions of literature's relationships with other forms of art, broader contemporary culture, as well as with questions of history, ethics, politics and community. |
| Category | Research Grant |
| Reference | AH/D500672/1 |
| Status | Closed |
| Funded period start | 08/01/2007 |
| Funded period end | 07/05/2007 |
| Funded value | £20,470.00 |
| Source | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FD500672%2F1 |
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| University of Edinburgh |
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