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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 reader is given an initial, non-technical description of the 'aesthetic of the strange' as it is experienced in the reading or viewing process. There follows a broad survey of modern and postmodern trends, illustrating their staggering variety and making plain the manifold methods and strategies adopte.
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Making strange: beauty, sublimity, and the (post)modern 'third aesthetic'
2008, Rodopi
in English
1435670728 9781435670723
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"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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172).
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