W. G. SEBALD: THE PLEASURE AND PAIN OF BEAUTY
Beauty plays a central but ambivalent role in Sebald's writings. Echoing Kant's aesthetic theory, Sebald's texts emphasise the disinterested and free nature of aesthetic pleasure, but they also argue that this pleasure is increasingly threatened in the modern age, as the human relatio...
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2009
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