Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror

The Melancholic Sublime

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Death & Dying, Popular Culture
Cover of the book Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror by Matthew Leggatt, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Matthew Leggatt ISBN: 9781315411477
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: November 14, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Matthew Leggatt
ISBN: 9781315411477
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: November 14, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic force, it currently spreads fear, violence, and retrospection. In exploring contemporary culture, this book touches on the role of architecture to provoke feelings of sublimity, the role of art in the aftermath of destructive events, literature’s establishment of the historical moment as a point of sublime transformation and change, and the place of nostalgia and the returning of past practices in digital culture from gaming to popular cinema.

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This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic force, it currently spreads fear, violence, and retrospection. In exploring contemporary culture, this book touches on the role of architecture to provoke feelings of sublimity, the role of art in the aftermath of destructive events, literature’s establishment of the historical moment as a point of sublime transformation and change, and the place of nostalgia and the returning of past practices in digital culture from gaming to popular cinema.

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