The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers Grimm
The author, inspired by philosophical aesthetic reflection, presents one of the aesthetic qualities: ugliness. Based on the assumption that “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” directly reach the realm of the unconscious, utilising towards that end not only symbolic meaning, but also a wide range of operations thr...
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| description | The author, inspired by philosophical aesthetic reflection, presents one of the aesthetic qualities: ugliness. Based on the assumption that “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” directly reach the realm of the unconscious, utilising towards that end not only symbolic meaning, but also a wide range of operations through imagined sensory perception, she identifies in the texts such fragments of the stories which relate to specific sensations caused in the real world using physical stimuli. The analysis constitutes only a case-based introductory study of the issue of senses in literary texts. She does not focus on the tale as an independent existential creation, which carries a multitude of interpretative references and meanings, only the possibilities offered by the analysis of a work, which consists of a transfer of a literary description to the imagination of the sensory experience occurring (hypothetically) in the receiver’s imagination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1e9645eb47a491288a8fb9459eb9a5f2022-12-21T21:56:34ZengLodz University PressActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica1505-90572353-19082017-09-0143510.18778/1505-9057.43.161965The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers GrimmAnita Szwajkowska0Chair of Journalism and Social Communication, Faculty of Philology, University of LodzThe author, inspired by philosophical aesthetic reflection, presents one of the aesthetic qualities: ugliness. Based on the assumption that “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” directly reach the realm of the unconscious, utilising towards that end not only symbolic meaning, but also a wide range of operations through imagined sensory perception, she identifies in the texts such fragments of the stories which relate to specific sensations caused in the real world using physical stimuli. The analysis constitutes only a case-based introductory study of the issue of senses in literary texts. She does not focus on the tale as an independent existential creation, which carries a multitude of interpretative references and meanings, only the possibilities offered by the analysis of a work, which consists of a transfer of a literary description to the imagination of the sensory experience occurring (hypothetically) in the receiver’s imagination.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/2690fairy talesuglinessaestheticsGrimmaesthetic valuesensory vision |
| spellingShingle | Anita Szwajkowska The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers Grimm Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica fairy tales ugliness aesthetics Grimm aesthetic value sensory vision |
| title | The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers Grimm |
| title_full | The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers Grimm |
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| title_short | The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers Grimm |
| title_sort | ugly in fine arts the sensory nature of terror in the tales of the brothers grimm |
| topic | fairy tales ugliness aesthetics Grimm aesthetic value sensory vision |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/2690 |
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