How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess and the Obscene
The public does not desire horror, yet enjoys it in art and suffers it in life. When we deal with the monstrous marriage of the abject and the sublime, the consequent thrill of enjoyment is never appeased, always problematic, often unresolved and finally borders on physiological if not pathological...
| Основен автор: | Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English Italian |
| Публикувано: |
Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=531986 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess and the Obscene. |
| Резюме: |
The public does not desire horror, yet enjoys it in art and suffers it in life. When we deal with the monstrous marriage of the abject and the sublime, the consequent thrill of enjoyment is never appeased, always problematic, often unresolved and finally borders on physiological if not pathological narcissism. The public is well acquainted with this 'rhetoric of effects'; rhetoric of extreme effects, which transforms the spectator into voyeur or victim, into an apathetic torturer, whenever cr ... |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781443836838 1443836834 |