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Author Biles, Jeremy

Title Ecce monstrum : Georges Bataille and the sacrifice of form / Jeremy Biles
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages) : illustrations
Series UPSO - Fordham University Press E-Books
Contents Introduction -- Ecstatic and Intolerable: The Provocations of Friendship -- Nietzsche Slain -- The Labyrinth: Toward Bataille's "Extremist Surrealism" -- The Cross: Simone Weil's Hyperchristianity -- The Wounded Hands Of Bataille: Hans Bellmer, Bataille, And The Art Of Monstrosity -- Conclusion
Summary In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religious sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. 'Ecce Monstrum' investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780823247752
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index
Notes English
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Subject Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
SUBJECT Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 fast
Subject Monsters.
Holy, The.
ART -- European.
Holy, The
Monsters
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823235193
082323519X
9780823247752
0823247759