"As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism."
"At the close of the eighteenth century, the aesthetics of the sublime were shaped by two conflicting views: the empiricism of Edmund Burke and the formalist idealism of Immanuel Kant. Today, theoretical work struggles once again with this philosophical issue. In modern debates over the nature of literary language and of human agency, the sublime has been a bone of contention for critics of every stripe, from Adorno and Eagleton to Derri ..."
Pornography, the Theory(1st Edition) What Utilitarianism Did to Action by FrancesFerguson Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24321-4, ISBN: 0-226-24321-4
"Over the past four decades, Geoffrey Hartman's voice has been one of the most important and profound in contemporary literary theory. Most noted for his scholarship on Wordsworth and Romanticism, Hartman developed throughout his work an original conception of the relationship between literary and critical writing that is still considered a deeply significant contribution to the field. In The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, the most import ..."
Pornography, the Theory(1st Edition) What Utilitarianism Did to Action by FrancesFerguson Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24320-7, ISBN: 0-226-24320-6
Mum (Paperback) by ProfessorFrancesFerguson Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2011 by Dog Ear Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4575-0356-6, ISBN: 1-4575-0356-5
"This is a story for everyone with aging parents. With love and always with humor, author, Frances Ferguson tells her own heartwarming story about her mother and herself, as they embark on the trip of a lifetime."
"Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic and political climates. At a time when many argue th ..."
"In response to trends in criticism in recent decades, this special issue of Modern Language Quarterly contains new essays by prominent literary critics reasserts and refreshes the crucial importance of studying form for a productive understanding of complex issues that have frequently been oversimplified. It includes Heather Dubrow, answering New Historicist accounts of country house ideology, J. Paul Hunter reclaiming attention to eigh ..."
"The twentieth-century history of few countries has been so profoundly marked by breaks, discontinuities, and ruptures as has Germany's--the radical breaks between the Wilhelmine empire, the Weimar Republic, and the National Socialist period; the end of history in 1945 and the dual reconstruction from Year Zero, followed by the reunification of post-1989 German. This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly focuses on the many dimension ..."
"Thus each chapter of McWhorter's book begins with a headnote indicating the
circumstances of the narration to follow, dating ... tones of voice, gestures, or “
style” (as when McWhorter comments that Yellow Wolf's narration of the Nez
Perces' final battle ... 54) Or, early in chapter 5, “The Fight with Captain Randall's
Volunteers,” we have McWhorter speaking in his own ... I interposed, “General
Howard states that some of Looking G ..."
"Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic and political climates. At a time when many argue th ..."