Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post) Modern Third Aesthetic - Couverture souple

Grabes, Herbert

 
9789042024335: Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post) Modern Third Aesthetic
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 904202433X ISBN 13 : 9789042024335
Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2008

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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Éditeur
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
904202433X
ISBN 13 
9789042024335
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
204
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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