Towards a Better Understanding of the Ugly in Literature
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Description: | Because of the lack of a definition of the ugly that does not depend on beauty and that is applicable to literary studies, one proposes that ugliness is an independent aesthetic category. One determines lack and excess as the common aesthetic traits of the ugly and horror and disgust as the inherent emotional response they commonly provoke. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/12673 |
| Online Access: | https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/12673 |
| Keyword: | aesthetics of ugliness excess lack horror the ugly carencia estética de lo feo exceso fealdad |