Transgression And The Aesthetics Of Evil
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Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
Author | : Taran Kang |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781487529093 |
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How do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil, Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that continues to reverberate to the present day. Transgression, once allocated the central place in the constitution of evil, undergoes a startling revaluation in the Enlightenment and its aftermath, one that needs to be understood in relation to emergent ideas in the arts. Taran Kang engages with the writings of Edmund Burke, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt, among others, as he questions recent calls to "de-aestheticize" evil and insists on a historically informed appreciation of evil’s aesthetic dimensions. Chapters consider the figure of the "evil genius," the paradoxical appeal of the grotesque and the disgusting, and the moral status of spectators who behold scenes of suffering and acts of transgression. In grappling with these issues, Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil questions the feasibility and desirability of insulating the moral from the aesthetic.
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
Author | : Taran Kang |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1487529082 |
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The Qur an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose
Author | : Sarah R. bin Tyeer |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-09-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137598752 |
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This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on the aesthetic dimension of the Qur’an, this methodology opens up new horizons for reading adab by reading the tradition from within the tradition and thereby examining issues of “decontextualisation” and the “untranslatable.” This approach, in turn, invites Comparatists, as well as Arabists, to consider other means and perspectives for approaching adab besides the Bakhtinian carnival. Applying this critical strategy to literary works as diverse as One Thousand and One Nights and The Epistle of Forgiveness, Sarah R. bin Tyeer aims to prove two major points: how Bakhtin’s aesthetics is anachronistic and therefore theoretically inappropriate when applied to certain literary works and how ultimately this literary methodology is sometimes used as a proxy for ungrounded and, sometimes, unfair arguments by other scholars. Foreword by Angelika Neuwirth, Professor of Quranic studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
Author | : Taran Kang |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2021-12-15 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, European |
ISBN | : 9781487529079 |
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Genius and the Spirit of Transgression -- Symbols of the Morally Bad -- Evil and the Sublime -- Wicked Spectators.
Representation Heterodoxy and Aesthetics
Author | : Ashley Marshall |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2014-12-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781611495355 |
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This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation.
The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics
Author | : Kriss Ravetto |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0816637431 |
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In works by filmmakers from Bertolucci to Spielberg, debauched images of nazi and fascist eroticism, symbols of violence and immorality, often bear an uncanny resemblance to the images and symbols once used by the fascists themselves to demarcate racial, sexual, and political others. This book exposes the "madness" inherent in such a course, which attests to the impossibility of disengaging visual and rhetorical constructions from political, ideological, and moral codes. Kriss Ravetto argues that contemporary discourses using such devices actually continue unacknowledged rhetorical, moral, and visual analogies of the past. Against postwar fictional and historical accounts of World War II in which generic images of evil characterize the nazi and the fascist, Ravetto sets the more complex approach of such filmmakers as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Liliana Cavani, and Lina Wertmuller. Her book asks us to think deeply about what it means to say that we have conquered fascism, when the aesthetics of fascism still describe and determine how we look at political figures and global events. Book jacket.
Transgression 2 0
Author | : Ted Gournelos,David J. Gunkel |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2011-11-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781441190246 |
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One doesn't need to look far to find examples of contemporary locations of cultural opposition. Digital piracy, audio mashups, The Onion and Wikipedia are all examples of transgression in our current mediascape. And as digital age transgression becomes increasingly essential, it also becomes more difficult to define and protect. The contributions in this collection are organized into six sections that address the use of new technologies to alter existing cultural messages, the incorporation of technology and alternative media in transformation of everyday cultural practices and institutions, and the reuse and repurposing of technology to focus active political engagement and innovative social change. Bringing together a variety of scholars and case studies, Transgression 2.0 will be the first key resource for scholars and students interested in digital culture as a transformative intervention in the types, methods and significance of cultural politics.
Aesthetics of Religion
Author | : Alexandra K. Grieser,Jay Johnston |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783110461015 |
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This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present diverse material and detailed analysis on descriptive, methodological and theoretical concepts that together explore the potential of an aesthetic approach for investigating religion as a sensory and mediated practice. In dialogue with, yet different from, other major movements in the field (material culture, anthropology of the senses, for instance), it is the specific intent of this approach to create a framework for understanding the interplay between sensory, cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of world-construction. The volume demonstrates that aesthetics, as a theory of sensory knowledge, offers an elaborate repertoire of concepts that can help to understand religious traditions. These approaches take into account contemporary developments in scientific theories of perception, neuro-aesthetics and cultural studies, highlighting the socio-cultural and political context informing how humans perceive themselves and the world around them. Developing since the 1990s, the aesthetic approach has responded to debates in the study of religion, in particular striving to overcome biased categories that confined religion either to texts and abstract beliefs, or to an indisputable sui generis mode of experience. This volume documents what has been achieved to date, its significance for the study of religion and for interdisciplinary scholarship.