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The social ethics of modern aesthetics

dc.contributor.authorMedeiros, Pilar Damião
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-25T12:46:36Z
dc.date.available2017-10-25T12:46:36Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThe rapid emergence of the economic, political and cultural global paradigms has prompted new and remarkable contours in the intellectual sphere, particularly in the literary realm. In order to understand these symptomatic changes in both the individual and collective 'sociocultural imaginary', it is vital to decipher and decode the various messages conjured up in the 'polyphony of critical voices'. This chapter examines the effects and implications of globalisation in modern contemporary literature and explores the various forms of criticism implied in different literary texts as a way of social, political and aesthetic resistance towards the subtle rational-instrumental techniques of 'mass culture' and towards the passivity and lack of critical and creative and reflexive thought of social actors now triggered. On the one hand, by commodity fetishism, taste standardization and homogeneity, and on the other hand, by a disguised pseudo-originality. Meanwhile, this work also emphasises the different and subtle mechanisms used by modern writers to protect their ‘aesthetic identity’ and their works not only from ‘popular kitsch’, but also from a sequence of post-modern clichés.en
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dc.identifier.citationDamião de Medeiros, P. (2010). The social ethics of modern aesthetics. In Lin, Ching-Yu, & McSweeney, J. (eds.), "Representation and Contestation: Cultural Politics in a Political Century", (pp. 153-164). Nova Iorque: Rodopi. ISBN: 978-90-420-3149-4.pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-90-420-3149-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/4462
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherRodopipt_PT
dc.subjectAestheticen
dc.subjectEthical Resistanceen
dc.subjectGlobalisationen
dc.subjectLiteratureen
dc.subjectMass Cultureen
dc.subjectPopular Kitschen
dc.titleThe social ethics of modern aestheticsen
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceNova Iorquept_PT
oaire.citation.endPage164pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage153pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleRepresentation and Contestation: Cultural Politics in a Political Centuryen
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