Ambiguous subjects : dissolution and metamorphosis in the postmodern sublime / / Jennifer Wawrzinek.

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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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Genus--gender in modern culture ; 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (157 p.)
Notes:Originally presented the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, 2008.
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505 0 0 |a Preliminary Material -- Sublime Politics -- The Haunting of Transcendence -- Translation as Erotic Surrender: Nicole Brossard’s Radical Other in Le Désert 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. 
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