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1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREAMBLE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE |
| Summary |
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 .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century.
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Art -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century
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Horror in art.
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Aesthetics, Modern.
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Theory of art.
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Western philosophy: Enlightenment.
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Cultural studies.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics, Modern
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Art -- Philosophy
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Horror in art
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012427487 |
| ISBN |
9781443836838 |
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1443836834 |
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