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

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 rea...

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Superior document:Postmodern studies
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2008.
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Postmodern studies ; 42.
Physical Description:1 online resource e (xiii, 172 pages, 16 pages of plates) :; illustrations (chiefly color)
Notes:"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.
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