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Ambiguous subjects : dissolution and metamorphosis in the postmodern sublime /
In 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 ce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Colección: | Genus--gender in modern culture ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 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 reco. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789042029019 9042029013 1282594257 9781282594258 9786612594250 661259425X 1441606475 9781441606471 |