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Postmodernisms now : essays on contemporaneity in the arts
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ISBN: 0271018046 0271018038 Year: 1998 Publisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press,

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Act and quality : a theory of literary meaning and humanistic understanding
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ISBN: 0870233270 Year: 1981 Publisher: Amherst University of Massachusetts press


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Act and quality: a theory of literary meaning and humanistic understanding
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ISBN: 0870234285 Year: 1981 Publisher: Amherst

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Reckoning with the Imagination : Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience
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ISBN: 1501700545 1501700553 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to account for the values that engage literary texts in the social world. In Reckoning with the Imagination, Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can restore much of the power of the arguments for the role of aesthetics in art. Altieri finds a perspective for that restoration in a reading of Wittgenstein's later work that stresses Wittgenstein's parallel criticisms of the spirit of empiricism. Altieri begins by offering a phenomenology of imagination, because we cannot fully honor art if we do not link it to a distinctive, socially productive force. That force emerges in two quite different but equally powerful realizations in his reading of John Ashbery's "Instruction Manual," which explicitly establishes a model for a postromantic view of imagination, and William Butler Yeats's "Leda and the Swan." He then turns to Wittgenstein with chapters on the role of display as critique of Enlightenment thinking, the honoring of qualities like sensitivity and the ability to attune to the actions of others, the role of expression in the building of models, and the contrast between ethical and confessional modes of judgment. Finally, Altieri produces his own model of aesthetic experience as participatory valuation and makes an extended argument for the social significance of appreciation as a way to escape the patterns of resentment fundamental to our current mode of politics. A masterful work by one of our foremost literary and philosophical theorists, Reckoning with the Imagination will breathe new life into ongoing debates over the value of aesthetic experience.


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Self and sensibility in contemporary American poetry.
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ISBN: 9780521274135 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) Cambridge university press

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Wallace Stevens and the demands of modernity : toward a phenomenology of value
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ISBN: 9780801478727 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca London Cornell University Press

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Painterly abstraction in modernist American poetry : the contemporaneity of modernism
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ISBN: 0271014199 Year: 1995 Publisher: Pennsylvania The Pensylvania State University Press

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ISBN: 9781501700552 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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Painterly abstraction in modernist American poetry : the contemporaneity of modernism.
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ISBN: 0521330858 9780521330855 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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"Charles Altieri's book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analysing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding idealising principles in modes of pure abstraction. It traces the use of such abstraction in literature from Wordsworth, through Baudelaire and Mallarme, to T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein. There are summary chapters also on Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound, considerations of Cezanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art."--Publisher description.

The particulars of rapture : an aesthetics of the affects
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ISBN: 0801488435 0801488435 0801441544 Year: 2003 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell university press,

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