Th essay explores the categories of ideal beauty, picturesque beauty and sublimity as described in the 17c in unison with the latitudinarian assumptions of Boyle, Bentley, Burnet and Gilpin, which allow for chaos and monstrosity to enter the order of creation. The analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein focuses on the discourse of proportions that validate the aesthetic beauty of the creature which becomes a monster only in the perception of his viewers.
Monsters in the cage of language, or the limit between beauty and deformity / F. Orestano - In: Delicate Monsters. Literary Creatures of Wonder / [a cura di] Carlo Pagetti, Oriana Palusci. - Milano : CISALPINO, 2007. - ISBN 978-88-323-6073-8. - pp. 107-121
Monsters in the cage of language, or the limit between beauty and deformity
F. OrestanoPrimo
2007
Abstract
Th essay explores the categories of ideal beauty, picturesque beauty and sublimity as described in the 17c in unison with the latitudinarian assumptions of Boyle, Bentley, Burnet and Gilpin, which allow for chaos and monstrosity to enter the order of creation. The analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein focuses on the discourse of proportions that validate the aesthetic beauty of the creature which becomes a monster only in the perception of his viewers.
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