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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Table of Contents:
- 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.