Making Strange Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post) Modern `Third Aesthetic¿.
| Author/creator | Grabes, Herbert Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Kenilworth : Rodopi |
| Description | 201 p. ill 22.000 x 015.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear `strange¿, and how can they still cause pleasure in the beholder? To help overcome the initial barrier caused by this `strangeness¿, the general reader is given an initial, non-technical description of the `aesthetic of the strange¿ as it is experienced in the reading or viewing process. There follows a broad survey of modern and postmodern trends, illustrating their staggering variety and making plain the manifold methods and strategies adopted by writers and artists to `make it strange¿. The book closes with a systematic summary of the theoretical underpinnings of the `aesthetic of the strange¿, focussing on the ways in which it differs from both the earlier `aesthetic of the beautiful¿ and the `aesthetic of the sublime¿. It is made amply clear that the strangeness characteristic of modern and postmodern art has ushered in an entirely new, `third¿ kind of aesthetic ¿ one that has undergone further transformation over the past two decades. Beyond its usefulness as a practical introduction to the `aesthetic of the strange¿, the present study also takes up the most recent, cutting-edge aspects of scholarly debate, while initiates are offered an original approach to the theoretical implications of this seminal phenomenon. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789042024335 |
| ISBN | 904202433X (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Stock number | 00097999 |
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