The beauty of convention : essays in literature and culture

The beauty of convention : essays in literature and culture / edited by Marija Krivokapić-Knežević and Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević.

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...

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Other Authors: Krivokapić-Knežević, Marija, Nikčević-Batrićević, Aleksandra
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Literature > Philosophy > Congresses.
Literature & literary studies.
Literary essays.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Deconstruction.
Literature > Philosophy
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of 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; THE BEAUTY OF OPERATIC AND POSTMODERNCONVENTION(S) IN MICHAEL BERKELEYAND IAN MCEWAN S FOR YOU (2008); CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.

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