LEADER 04668nam 2200841Ia 450 001 9910454338303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-59425-7 010 $a9786612594250 010 $a90-420-2901-3 010 $a1-4416-0647-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042029019 035 $a(CKB)1000000000755797 035 $a(EBL)556364 035 $a(OCoLC)649903302 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101807 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12025804 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101807 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10043194 035 $a(PQKB)11773207 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556364 035 $a(OCoLC)318632744 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042029019 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556364 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380311 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL259425 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000755797 100 $a20090326d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmbiguous subjects$b[electronic resource] $edissolution and metamorphosis in the postmodern sublime /$fJennifer Wawrzinek 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York, NY $cRodopi$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (157 p.) 225 1 $aGenus--gender in modern culture ;$v10 300 $aOriginally presented the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, 2008. 311 $a90-420-2548-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Sublime Politics -- The Haunting of Transcendence -- Translation as Erotic Surrender: Nicole Brossard?s Radical Other in Le Désert mauve -- Navigating the Contingent Subject in Morgan Yasbincek?s liv -- ?When I?m Up There It Feels Like Heaven?: Aerial Bodies and The Women?s Circus Secrets -- A New Transcendental -- Works Cited. 330 $aIn the history of ideas, the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the grotesque have exerted a powerful force over the cultural imagination. Ambiguous Subjects is one of the first studies to examine the relationship between these concepts. Tracing the history of the sublime from the eighteenth century through Burke and Kant, Wawrzinek illustrates the ways in which the sublime has traditionally been privileged as an inherently masculine and imperialist mode of experience that polices and abjects the grotesque to the margins of acceptable discourse, and the way in which twentieth-century reconfigurations of the sublime increasingly enable the productive situating of these concepts within a dialogic relation as a means of instating an ethical relation to others. This book examines the articulations of both the sublime and the grotesque in three postmodern texts. Looking at novels by Nicole Brossard and Morgan Yasbincek, and the performance work of The Women?s Circus, Wawrzinek illuminates the ways in which these writers and performers restructure the spatial and temporal parameters of the sublime in order to allow various forms of highly contingent transcendence that always necessarily remain in relation to the grotesque body. Ambiguous Subjects illustrates how the sublime and the grotesque can co-exist in a manner where each depends on and is inflected through the other, thus enabling a notion of individuality and of community as contingent, but nevertheless very real, moments in time. Ambiguous Subjects is essential reading for anyone interested in aesthetics, continental philosophy, gender studies, literary theory, sociology and politics. 410 0$aGenus--gender in modern culture ;$v10. 606 $aExperience in literature 606 $aGrotesque in literature 606 $aHuman body (Philosophy) 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aMind and body 606 $aPostmodernism (Literature) 606 $aSubjectivity in literature 606 $aSublime, The, in literature 606 $aSublime, The 606 $aTranscendence (Philosophy) in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aExperience in literature. 615 0$aGrotesque in literature. 615 0$aHuman body (Philosophy) 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aMind and body. 615 0$aPostmodernism (Literature) 615 0$aSubjectivity in literature. 615 0$aSublime, The, in literature. 615 0$aSublime, The. 615 0$aTranscendence (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a111.85 700 $aWawrzinek$b Jennifer$0880257 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454338303321 996 $aAmbiguous subjects$91965386 997 $aUNINA