Body, Sensuousness, Eros and the New Aesthetic Order from Schiller to Rushdie

In the present article, I look into the culture-building power of Eros from Schiller’s ideas of “the aesthetic state of mind” in Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, through the Pre-Raphaelites’ eroticism to the nineteenthcentury fin de siècle aestheticized homoeroticism and beyond. I argue th...

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Main Author: Dana Bădulescu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2013-11-01
Series:Text Matters
Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/6951