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+ | <small><br>Illustration: ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' ("[[banned books|List of Prohibited Books]]") of the [[Catholic Church]].</small>]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe]]'' (1887) by [[Eugène Bataille]]]] | ||
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- | '''Transgressive''' and '''Transgression''' may mean: | + | '''Transgressive''' means involving '''transgression'''; that passes beyond some limit; [[sinful]]; going [[beyond]] generally [[accept]]ed [[boundaries]]; violating usual practice, [[subversive]]. |
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+ | '''Transgressive''' and '''transgression''' may refer to: | ||
* a legal transgression, a [[crime]] | * a legal transgression, a [[crime]] | ||
- | * a social transgression, violating a [[Norm (sociology)|norm]] | + | * a social transgression, violating a [[Norm (sociology)|norm]]; elements of moral and normative transgression are [[drugs]], [[sex]] and [[violence]] |
*[[Transgressive art]], a name given art forms which transgress. | *[[Transgressive art]], a name given art forms which transgress. | ||
*[[Transgressional fiction]], a modern style in literature. | *[[Transgressional fiction]], a modern style in literature. | ||
- | *a concept in [[Bataillean]] and [[Mikhail Bakhtin|Bakhtinian]] philosophy. | + | *a concept in [[Georges Bataille|Bataillean]] and [[Mikhail Bakhtin|Bakhtinian]] philosophy. Georges Bataille was one of the prime theorists of transgression. He emphasized the [[irrational]] in opposition to the rational, the erotic as opposed to morality, celebration of [[excess]] as opposed to restraint, transgression as opposed to conformity. |
- | + | ==Etymology== | |
+ | From ''[[trans]]'' (“across, beyond”) + ''[[gradior]]'' (“walk; advance”). | ||
+ | == Further reading == | ||
+ | *''[[Rabelais and His World]]'' (1965) by Mikhail Bakhtin | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
- | *''[[The Politics and Poetics of Transgression]]'' (1986) - Peter Stallybrass, Allon White | + | <div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3"> |
- | As Peter Stallybrass and Allon White affirm in THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF TRANSGRESSION, "disgust always bears the imprint of [[desire]]" (201) | + | *[[Abjection]] |
+ | *[[Carnivalesque]] | ||
+ | *[[Controversial]] | ||
+ | *[[Exaggeration]] | ||
+ | *[[Excess]] | ||
+ | *[[Grotesque]] | ||
+ | *[[Hierarchies]] | ||
+ | *[[Irrational]] | ||
+ | *[[Non-mainstream]] | ||
+ | *[[Obscene]] | ||
+ | *[[Offensive]] | ||
+ | *[[Radical]] | ||
+ | *[[Revolutionary]] | ||
+ | *[[Scandal]] | ||
+ | *[[Subversion]] | ||
+ | *[[Taboo]] | ||
+ | </div> | ||
{{GFDL}} | {{GFDL}} | ||
[[Category:Non-mainstream]] | [[Category:Non-mainstream]] |
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Transgressive means involving transgression; that passes beyond some limit; sinful; going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive.
Transgressive and transgression may refer to:
- a legal transgression, a crime
- a social transgression, violating a norm; elements of moral and normative transgression are drugs, sex and violence
- Transgressive art, a name given art forms which transgress.
- Transgressional fiction, a modern style in literature.
- a concept in Bataillean and Bakhtinian philosophy. Georges Bataille was one of the prime theorists of transgression. He emphasized the irrational in opposition to the rational, the erotic as opposed to morality, celebration of excess as opposed to restraint, transgression as opposed to conformity.
Etymology
From trans (“across, beyond”) + gradior (“walk; advance”).
Further reading
- Rabelais and His World (1965) by Mikhail Bakhtin
See also
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