The Beauty of Convention : Essays in Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781443861120
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

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 metadiscourse on human dependence on symbolic interaction and generic conventions. Looking into the artificial, invented, side of this concept, the book addresses such questions as: What is beauty...


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