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Aesthetic Categories and the Social Life of Genre in Victorian Criticism.
- Source :
- Victorian Studies; Spring2017, Vol. 59 Issue 3, p450-456, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This paper explores the contingent and affective dimensions of genre in Victorian criticism on the ballad. Aesthetic judgments comprise an important part of the historical meta-discourse surrounding literary genres, yet these categories occupy only a marginal position in our present theories of genre. The terms of aesthetic judgment tend to fall out when we tally historical genres' discursive conventions and map their formal and thematic contours. In contrast, Victorian literary criticism's dependence on the language of feeling, not only in describing individual works but also in shaping generic taxonomies, provides an opportunity to consider the ways in which the seemingly irreducible particularities of aesthetic experience meet the generalizing force of genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00425222
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Victorian Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125991440
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.59.3.08