Erscheint: September 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Ordinary Horror
The Aesthetics of Deformation from Leopardi to Ferrante
Verlag:
Stanford University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35058109
EAN: 9781503647459
Erscheint: September 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 161.–
Beschreibung
What is horror. Setting aside the implausible circumstances typical of the horror genre, Capra investigates what he terms "ordinary horror"—the horror that haunts our world, and that we may encounter firsthand. Drawing from ordinary language philosophy and phenomenology, he reframes horror as a common human experience tied to a sense of forced powerlessness—the shattering moment when our control over a given situation, and our very sense of reality, unravels. By tracing this experience across texts beyond the horror genre, Capra reveals its significance for our time. Centering on modern Italian literature, Ordinary Horror. shows a tradition not typically associated with horror to be rife with it. To this end, Capra emphasizes the centrality of the experience in canonical authors, as seen, for instance, in Giacomo Leopardi's pages on existential suffering, Primo Levi's writings on Auschwitz, and Elena Ferrante's descriptions of sexual violence. Literature, Capra argues, can convey horror's experiential magnitude through what he calls the "aesthetics of deformation"—scenes when otherwise realistic texts depart from verisimilitude and embrace a more disquieting style. Weaving together aesthetics and phenomenology, Capra shows that just as horror may rupture the fabric of everyday life, so too may it rupture the fabric of a literary text.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Andrea Capra
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 312