Transgressing the modern: explorations in the Western experience of otherness

"The author's central theme is the relationship of modernity to the exclusions and repressions that have become central to the modern sense of identity, and which have frequently subverted the liberal, cosmopolitan pretensions of the modern West. He shows how an understanding of modernity...

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1. Verfasser: Jervis, John (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford [u.a.] Blackwell 1999
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"The author's central theme is the relationship of modernity to the exclusions and repressions that have become central to the modern sense of identity, and which have frequently subverted the liberal, cosmopolitan pretensions of the modern West. He shows how an understanding of modernity is inseparable from an understanding of this 'other' side, these zones of distortion and taboo - the carnivalesque, the 'primitive', madness, nature, sexuality, and aspects of the feminine. These are shown to hold a powerful fascination for the modern imagination, and to provide potent resources for transgression, conflict and nostalgia." "The second main theme is the emergence of transgression itself as central to the modern experience of otherness - the crossing of the boundaries that separate 'us' and 'them', through art, fantasy and the theatrical dimensions of everyday life."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:232 S. Ill.
ISBN:0631211098
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