How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess and the Obscene:
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Main Author: Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub. 2012
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Item Description: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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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (185 pages)
ISBN:1443836435
1443836834
9781443836432
9781443836838

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