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Tables of Contents for The Sublime Figure of History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
16
1 Sublimation unto Death: The Aesthetic Search for Meaning in Cultural Crisis
17
38
2 Writing China: The Imaginary Body and Allegorical Wilderness
55
46
3 The Sublime and Gender
101
22
4 Desire and Pleasure in Revolutionary Cinema
123
32
5 The Sublime Subject of Practice
155
39
6 The Cultural Revolution: A Terrible Beauty Is Born
194
35
7 The Angels of History: The Fantastic, Schizophrenic, and Grotesque
229
34
Conclusion
263
8
Notes
271
16
Character List
287
6
Bibliography
293
12
Index
305