December 4, 1998

Wearying of Cultural Studies, Some Scholars Rediscover Beauty

By SCOTT HELLER

Tentatively, they seek renewed attention to aesthetic criteria in criticism

The name of the new book had slipped Michael Kelly's mind when he went into a large bookstore near Columbia University recently. The book was about the idea of beauty, though, and Mr. Kelly figured that a topic so out of favor among scholars would be easy to identify through a simple computer

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