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Making strange : beauty, sublimity, and the (post)modern 'third aesthetic' / / Herbert Grabes



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Autore: Grabes Herbert Visualizza persona
Titolo: Making strange : beauty, sublimity, and the (post)modern 'third aesthetic' / / Herbert Grabes Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource e (xiii, 172 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Disciplina: 809.9113
Soggetto topico: Postmodernism
Art, Modern - 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 20th century
Art and literature - History - 20th century
Note generali: "English translation by Marc Colavincenzo from Einführung in die Literatur und Kunst der Moderne und Postmoderne : die Ästhetik des Fremden (Tübingen & Basel: Francke, 2004), with further editing by Gordon Collier"--Title page verso.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172).
Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- The Aesthetic of the Strange -- The Strange Art and Literature of Modernism -- The Strange Art and Literature of Postmodernism -- The Aesthetic of the Strange as the Aesthetic of Modernism and Postmodernism -- Theoretical Foundations of the Aesthetic of the Strange -- Works Cited.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Making strange  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-59412-5
9786612594120
90-420-2911-0
1-4356-7072-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826333803321
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Serie: Postmodern studies ; ; 42.