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 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 abje…
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- Full title :Ambiguous subjects : dissolution and metamorphosis in the postmodern sublime / Jennifer Wawrzinek.
Summary
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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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Rodopi
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (156 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789042029019, 9042029013
- oclc:ocn649903302
- LC Classification:PN56.S7416
- Dewey Decimal:111.85
Table of Contents
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.
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