1st Edition

Fact and Symbol Essays in the Sociology of Art and Literature

Edited By Cesar Grana Copyright 1994
    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    Graa's work critically examines the continual rebirth of cultural romances on the part of literary intellectuals. His disdain for contrived rejections of modernity and for grand destructive gestures is combined with his intense appreciation of the romantic sensibility. Fact and Symbol embodies Graa's views of the enterprise of cultural sociology in which both words are given equal play.

    1. Social Optimism and Literary Depression, 2. French Impressionism as an Urban Art Form, 3. The Private Lives of Public Museums: Can Art Be Democratic? 4. Art and the American Republic, 5. Is There a Democratic Architecture? 6. John Dewey’s Social Art and the Sociology of Art, 7. Cultural Dreams and Historical Frustrations in Spanish American Literature

    Biography

    Cesar Grana