A Poetics of Art Criticism

A Poetics of Art Criticism The Case of Baudelaire - North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

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Raser questions criticism's predilection for a scientific discourse, arguing that aesthetic categories are better indicators of a text's literary qualities. Although aesthetics has claimed subjective pleasure as its sole criterion since the time of Kant, aesthetic judgments tend always to ground themselves in logic or reference. In art criticism, description serves as this ground and is no more productive than in Baudelaire's art criticism, where it leads to poetry.

Book information

ISBN: 9780807892381
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 841.8
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 197
Weight: 318g
Height: 154mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 25mm