ISBN:
9789042037960
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (246 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 171
Parallel Title:
Print version Quote, Double Quote : Aesthetics between High and Popular Culture
DDC:
305.8 G198
Keywords:
Aesthetics -- In popular culture
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Structuralism (Literary analysis)
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Aesthetics ; In popular culture
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Structuralism (Literary analysis)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The boundary between 'high' culture and 'popular' culture is neither hermetic nor stable. A wide-spread mechanism of a reception strongly influenced by structuralism and post-modernism has led to the amplification and acceleration of cultural production between these two poles. Relying on a decidedly theoretical approach, this volume offers a broad perspective transgressing linguistic, cultural, temporal, and media borders.Reflections and perspectives on the relationship between 'high' and 'popular' culture are the subject of the thirteen articles collected here. Side by side with theoretical
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Popular Culture in the Field of 'Undercomplexity'and 'Imbalanced Coding'; ""New Standards of Beauty and Style and Taste"".Expanding the Concept of Camp; Doppelte Optik and lange Ohren - Notes on the Aesthetic Compromise; ""Wartime Entertainment"": Press Instructions of theNS Propaganda Ministry on Literary Texts in Magazines; Literary Field or ""Digital Soup""? Literature in the Internet; »Sick, sick, sick«?Pornography, Disgust, and the Limit Values of Aesthetics
Description / Table of Contents:
Sharks, Spiders, Locusts, Bats, and Rats:Thoughts Toward the Morphology of Creature FeaturesAppropriating the Undead:Zombies Outside the Horror Genre; Narrative Devices in Contemporary Animated Series, or:Why Family Guy Does not Copy The Simpsons; Wrestling with Narratives:Reflections on the Montréal Screwjob; The Logic of Metallica out of the Spirit of the Drastic:Reflections on Serious Writing in Popular Culture; Becoming Line: On Some Features of Philosophy in Salut, Deleuze!
Description / Table of Contents:
Alphabetical Writing between Information, Entertainment,and Experiment. Playful Variations of Lexicographyin High and Popular CultureNotes on Contributors
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