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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wawrzinek, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Colección:Genus--gender in modern culture ; 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: Sublime Politics; The Haunting of Transcendence; Translation as Erotic Surrender: Nicole Brossard's Radical Other in Le D©♭sert 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.