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This chapter offers an answer to the question: what is aesthetic value? It defends aesthetic empiricism: the view that the primary bearer of aesthetic value are experiences and that other things have aesthetic value in virtue of their capacity to provide aesthetically valuable experiences.
9 paź 2023 · Influenced by figures such as Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater, Aestheticism in Literature emphasized the autonomy of art, symbolist aesthetics, and a critique of prevailing moral values.
11 wrz 2009 · What makes aesthetic value value? The literature refers to the first question sometimes as the aesthetic question (Lopes 2018, 41–43; Shelley 2019, 1) and sometimes as the demarcation question (van der Berg 2020, 2; Matherne 2020, 315; Peacocke 2021, 165).
aesthetic value. The grounds of aesthetic value are those properties of the object - including literary works - that give the object its aesthetic value, that enable it to exercise its aesthetic capacity, when the right receiver comes along. And here I can give no better brief account than Eugene
9 paź 2023 · Aestheticism is a cultural and artistic movement of the 19th century that champions the intrinsic value of beauty and sensory experience in literature and art. It emphasizes art for art’s sake, advocating that creative works should prioritize aesthetic pleasure over didactic or moral messages.
I claim that the connection between aesthetics and literature is possible if a literary genre is transformed into an experience which is mostly subjective, and generates aesthetic values which, on the other hand, are more objective and universal.
1 mar 2020 · This paper focusses on the conceptual relations between three ways of engaging with texts that figure prominently in literary scholarship: textual interpretation, literary interpretation, and aesthetic appreciation.
