Towards a Productive Aesthetics by Keith O'regan

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Towards a Productive Aesthetics by Keith O'regan

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Teil der Historical Materialism-Serie

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O'Regan's analysis compares the politics and aesthetics of Blake and Brecht to offer dazzling insights into the work of both

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Towards a Productive Aesthetics by Keith O'regan

In Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O'Regan mobilises a constellative approach to compare the political-aesthetic strategies of William Blake (1757-1827) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). O'Regan traces two similar trajectories in each author's work: an exploration of how capitalist domination defines conjunctures, and an investigation of how historical figures, themes, and terrains illustrate past failures or losses that can be cleaved open for radical possibilities in the present. Brecht and Blake posit an "oppositional aesthetics of the now" that articulates a theory of experience under capitalism, while counter-posing an oppositional form of existence.

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Keith O'Regan teaches in the Writing and Humanities Departments of York University. His recent publications centre on comparative analyses of historical and contemporary film, and writing and graduate education.

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ISBN 13 9781642597868
ISBN 10 1642597864
Titel Towards a Productive Aesthetics
Autor Keith O'regan
Serie Historical Materialism
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Haymarket Books
Erscheinungsjahr 2022-12-06
Seitenanzahl 248
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