| 单词 | aesthetic distance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaesthetic distance aesthetic distance n. a sense or degree of emotional detachment considered integral to (and necessary for) dispassionate appreciation of the creative arts; see also psychical distance n. at psychical adj. Compounds.Some artists (esp. dramatists) have proposed methods designed to engender aesthetic distance in the viewer: see alienation effect at alienation n. 1c. ΚΠ 1911 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 8 306 While teaching to regard objects in themselves, apart from their practical use, art creates ‘esthetic distance’. 1948 Poetry Dec. 155 The direct approach is perilous to the artist... An art is usually..a kind of obliquity... Its fixed form proposes to guarantee the round-about of the artistic process, and the ‘aesthetic distance’. 1960 K. Beckson & A. Ganz Reader's Guide Lit. Terms (1961) 11 This necessary separation between the observer and the work is called ‘psychic’ or, especially by the New Critics, ‘aesthetic distance.’ 1991 J. A. Cuddon Dict. Lit. Terms & Lit. Theory (ed. 3) 11 In his [sc. Hans Robert Jauss] theory literary value is measured according to ‘aesthetic distance’, the degree to which a work departs from the ‘horizon of expectations’ of its first readers. 2007 Contemp. Sociol. 36 223/1 The idea of aesthetic distance in the theatre explains how we are drawn in emotionally to situations we know are unreal. < as lemmas |
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