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Xu, Wenying.

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An ethic/aesthetic of freedom: Rethinking the relationship between artistic freedom and social responsibility.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An ethic/aesthetic of freedom: Rethinking the relationship between artistic freedom and social responsibility./
Author:	Xu, Wenying.
Description:	337 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Paul Bove.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-10A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9507416

An ethic/aesthetic of freedom: Rethinking the relationship between artistic freedom and social responsibility.
Xu, Wenying.

An ethic/aesthetic of freedom: Rethinking the relationship between artistic freedom and social responsibility. - 337 p.

Adviser: Paul Bove.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 1994.

Postmodernists argue that art is always already political. This dissertation attempts to complicate the argument by showing, through readings of four novelists, that those who engage in the politics of minimizing non-consensuality enhance artistic freedom. Here artistic freedom means the practice of freedom by means of art in opposition to domination.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

An ethic/aesthetic of freedom: Rethinking the relationship between artistic freedom and social responsibility.
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520 $a An interpretation of Michel Foucault against his critics serves as the theoretical framework for a discussion of Henry James, William Dean Howells, Liu Binyan, and Zhang Xianliang. The nineteenth century American writers read along with the contemporary Chinese writers make less pat the claim that artistic autonomy is impossible and undesirable. A study of James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Princess Casamassima and Howells's Hazards of New Fortune and The World of Chance investigates and assesses their political engagement in problematizing and opposing artistic autonomy. James, through characters like Isabel Archer and Hyacinth Robinson, presents a world which does not permit beauty, justice, and freedom to co-exist. Howells, by critiquing the contradictions in capitalism and liberalism, denies that literature can be divorced from politics. The reading of Liu's "People or Monster?" and "Sound Is Better Than Silence" and Zhang's Half Man Is Woman and Getting Used to Dying advocates their demand for an artistic autonomy which signifies opposition to the demand of the Chinese Communist Party that literature serve Party ideology. By writing reportages that expose social darkness and Party corruption, Liu rejuvenates the classic sense of the social responsibility of the scholar/writer. Zhang's descriptions of the persecution of Chinese intellectuals directly challenges the goal of the Deng regime to transfer people's political energy to that of making money by erasing memories about the past.
520 $a The political and cultural differences between the American and Chinese worlds make it clear that maintaining a rigid political position across times and cultures is counter-productive. Each setting reveals its own dominating practices and calls for specific measures for resisting them. Thus, this study presents a position that is strategic and elastic in its general principles of minimizing non-consensuality and maximizing artistic freedom.
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