How Far Can We Go? Pain, Excess and the Obscene.:

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...

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1. Verfasser: Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
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Zusammenfassung: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 ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (185 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443836838
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