A Poetics of Art Criticism
The Case of Baudelaire
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
Published:30th Jan '89
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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.
ISBN: 9780807892381
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 317g
202 pages