Facing the Ugly: The Case of Frankenstein
Facing the Ugly: The Case of Frankenstein
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面对丑陋：弗兰肯斯坦的案例
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2000
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D. Gigante
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D. Gigante
有一件事是不能否认的：这个怪物非常丑陋。但这种丑陋是什么呢？这样一个问题看似简单;任何诉诸美学理论的方法都注定是徒劳的。18世纪以来的传统范畴--崇高、美丽、如画--排斥丑陋，尽管怪诞（在世纪后期尤为突出）乍看起来可能与之相关，但它从未在《弗兰肯斯坦》中被具体引用，也不能与丑陋混为一谈。虽然从词源学上讲，
monster, one thing cannot be denied: the creature is exceedingly ugly. But in what does this ugliness consist? Such a question is deceptively simple; any recourse to aesthetic theory is bound to come up empty. Traditional categories from the eighteenth century-the sublime, the beautiful, the picturesque-exclude the ugly, and though the grotesque (particularly prominent later in the nineteenth century) may at first seem related, it is never specifically invoked in Frankenstein and must not be confused with the ugly. While the etymological heritage of the