Despised since ancient times, ugliness gains unprecedented appeal among early modern writers and painters. Subverting all norms, they value the beauty of deformity and, by extolling the paradoxical pleasure of mimesis, they helped create a new subjectivity.
CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée
ISBN:978-2-406-11130-6
EAN:9782406111306
ISSN: 2103-480X
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11132-0
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 07-07-2021
Language: French
Keyword: Littérature comparée, histoire et théorie de l’art, philosophie, esthétique, laideur, beauté, subversion, subjectivité, plaisir, modernité
