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The beauty of convention : essays in literature and culture / edited by Marija Krivokapić-Knezević and Aleksandra Nikcević-Batrićević ; Janko Andrijasević [and nineteen others], contributors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume addresses the beauty of convention not in an attempt to recapitulate established values (as, luckily, in literature and culture, there are not absolute beauties that serve everyone and always), but as an aesthetic appreciation of form as a keeper of meaning and as an ethical post-cynical metadiscourse on human dependence on symbolic interaction and generic conventions. Looking into the artificial, invented, side of this concept, the book addresses such questions as: What is beauty...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; INTERPRETATION OF CONVENTIONSOR CONVENTION OF INTERPRETATION?THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PUZZLE; BEAUTY AND PAIN, AND THE ESCAPEFROM CONVENTION IN TRAGEDY1; OBJECTIVIST POETRY AND ITS CONVENTIONSIN THE CONTEXT OF MODERNISTAND POSTMODERNIST AMERICAN POETRY; "IN DUBLIN'S FAIR CITY"; THE LIBERATION OF THE SELFTHROUGH A SELF-IMPOSED EXILE; LORDJIM@OEDIPUSCOMPLEX.CONVENTION; SELF AND SELFNESS IN THE MODERNSCOTTISH NOVEL; METAPHYSICAL CONVENTIONIN HUXLEY'S TIME MUST HAVE A STOP; CONVENTIONS IN THE PRESENTATIONOF WOMEN IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE
- EMILY DICKINSON AND THE CHALLENGEOF CONVENTIONBREATHTAKING BEAUTY; MARTHA GRAHAM'S CHOREOGRAPHY; AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ART; DOUBLING OF CONVENTION; THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTYIN POSTMODERNISM AND DIGITAL MEDIAAS IN HOWARD GARDNER'STRUTH, BEAUTY AND GOODNESS REFRAMED; IAN MCEWAN'S ENDURING LOVE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6112-X
- OCLC:
- 881367978
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