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Aesthetics, American --- Arts, American --- Arts, Modern --- American aesthetics --- MODERN ARTS --- AESTHETICS --- 19th CENTURY --- U.S.

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What do we really mean when we call something "graphic"? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the "graphic" as a term tellingly at odds with itself. On the one hand, it seems to evoke the grotesque; on the other hand, it promises the geometrically streamlined in the form of graphs, diagrams, and user interfaces. Clark's innovation is to ask what happens when the same moment in a work of literature is graphic in both ways at once. Her answer suggests the graphic turn in contemporary literature is intimately implicated in the fraught dynamics of identification. As Clark reveals, this double graphic indexes the unseemliness of a lust—in our current culture of information—for cool epistemological mastery over the bodies of others. Clark analyzes the contemporary graphic along three specific axes: the ethnographic, the pornographic, and the infographic. In each chapter, Clark's explication of the double graphic reads a canonical author against literary, visual and/or performance works by Black and/or female creators. Pairing works by Edgar Allan Poe, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon with pieces by Mat Johnson, Kara Walker, Fran Ross, Narcissister, and Teju Cole, Clark tests the effects and affects of the double graphic across racialized and gendered axes of differences. American Graphic forces us to face how closely and uncomfortably yoked together disgust and data have become in our increasingly graph-ick world.

Aesthetics, American --- Affect (Psychology) in literature --- American fiction --- Grotesque in literature --- History and criticism --- Aesthetics, American. --- Affect (Psychology) in literature. --- Grotesque in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- affect. --- comics. --- ethnographic. --- graphic. --- grotesque. --- infographic. --- pornographic. --- postmodernism. --- History and criticism.

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Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson combines strands from America's religious experience with scientific information to offer interpretations that break new ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards, Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive, scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature.

American literature --- Pragmatism in literature. --- Natural history in literature. --- Aesthetics, American. --- English language --- American aesthetics --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric. --- United States --- Intellectual life. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Germanic languages

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Literary Gestures:The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary form. Collapsing the perceived divisions between the "ethnic" and the "aesthetic" in Asian American literary criticism, the eleven original essays in this volume provide theoretically sophisticated and formally sensitive readings of works in prose, poetry, and drama. These contributions bring discussions of genre, canonicity, narrative, and literary value to the fore to show how aesthetic and formal concerns play an important part in the production and consumption of these works. By calling for a more balanced mode of criticism, this collection invites students and scholars to reinvest in the literary, not as a negation of the sociopolitical, but as a complementary strategy in reading and understanding Asian American literature.

Aesthetics [American ] --- Américains aziatiques dans la littérature --- Asian Americans in literature --- Aziatische Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Esthetica [Amerikaanse ] --- Esthétique américaine --- 820 <73> --- Amerikaanse literatuur --- 820 <73> Amerikaanse literatuur --- Aesthetics, American --- American literature --- Asian Americans --- Asians --- Ethnology --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- American aesthetics --- Asian American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Asian American authors --- Yamanaka, Lois-Ann --- Kingston, Maxine Hong --- Yau, John --- Criticism and interpretation --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Selvadurai, Shyam --- Lahiri, Jhumpa --- Badami, Anita Rao --- Ng, Fay Myenne --- Mukherjee, Bharati --- Hwang, David Henry --- Houston, Velina Hasu --- Kadohata, Cynthia --- Yep, Laurence --- Littérature américaine --- Américains d'origine asiatique --- Littérature --- Auteurs d'origine asiatique --- 20e siècle --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature --- Esthétique

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This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective empowerment, political action, and aesthetics within this key decade. It is divided into three sections. The first section engages poetry and music as pivotal cultural form in 1960s literary transitions. The second section explains how literature, culture, and politics intersect to offer a blueprint for revolution within and beyond the United States. The final section addresses literary and cultural moments that are lesser-known in the canon of African American literature and culture. This book presents the 1960s as a unique commitment to art, when 'Black' became a political identity, one in which racial social justice became inseparable from aesthetic practice.

American literature --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- African American arts --- African American aesthetics. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government --- Aesthetics, African American --- Afro-American aesthetics --- Aesthetics, American --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature