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MAKING STRANGE
BEAUTY, SUBLIMITY, AND THE (POST) MODERN `THIRD AESTHETIC' |
| By: |
Herbert Grabes |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£32.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
904202433X |
| ISBN 13: |
9789042024335 |
| Publisher: |
BRILL |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2008 |
| Series: |
Postmodern Studies 42 |
| Pages: |
172 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Editions Rodopi B.V. |
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Non-returnable |
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