Making strange
Subtitle: beauty, sublimity, and the (post)modern 'third aesthetic'
By: Herbert Grabes
Series: Postmodern studies -- 42; Postmodern studies -- 42.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781435670723; 9789042029118; 9789042024335; 9781282594128; 9786612594120
Subjects: Postmodernism; Modern Art; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); History; Art and literature; Postmodernisme; Art; Art et littérature; Histoire; TRAVEL; Special Interest; Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM; General
Work titles: Einführung in die Literatur und Kunst der Moderne und Postmoderne
Description: This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear 'strange', and how can they still cause pleasure in the beholder? To help overcome the initial barrier caused by this 'strangeness', the general reader is given an initial, non-technical description of the 'aesthetic of the strange' as it is experienced in the reading or viewing process. There follows a broad survey of modern and postmodern trends, illustrating their staggering variety and making plain the manifold methods and strategies adopte.
Notes: "English translation by Marc Colavincenzo from Einführung in die Literatur und Kunst der Moderne und Postmoderne : die Ästhetik des Fremden (Tübingen & Basel: Francke, 2004), with further editing by Gordon Collier"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172).

English.
Table of contents: title: The aesthetic of the strange; title: The strange art and literature of modernism; title: The strange art and literature of postmodernism; title: The aesthetic of the strange as the aesthetic of modernism and postmodernism; title: Theoretical foundations of the aesthetic of the strange.