The Ironic Sublime
Author: Alan J. Isaacs
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 528
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Author: Alan J. Isaacs
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 528
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-30
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0521143675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.
Author: Rob Wilson
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780299127749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." Wilson sets the stage for his "genealogy" with a discussion of the classical notion of the sublime (taken primarily from Longinus) and the ways that notion was pragmatically transformed by its American setting and appropriated by American poets. He follows this transformation in successive chapters on the Puritans (Bradstreet) through the Naturalists (Livingston and Bryant), from the epitome of the American sublime (Whitman) to the greatest of the modernists (Stevens) and its present-day incarnations (Ashbery and others). Writing today under the sign of Hiroshima, contemporary writers must struggle with the concept of the sublime within a context of spiralling technologies and nuclear force that calls into question the long-standing American sacralization of power. Throughout American Sublime, Wilson engages in an original theoretical inquiry into "the sublime" as term, topic, complex, and controversial idea in literary and critical history. Furthermore, he undertakes his historical study from an avowedly postmodern perspective, one that draws on and extends the work of Jameson, Lyotard, Foucault, Lentricchia, Harold Bloom, and others.
Author: Geoff Nicholson
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781944700362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoe has a plan to walk around the world without ever leaving his backyard, and waiting for his violent past to catch up to him
Author: Norman Cheadle
Publisher: Tamesis
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1855660709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh look at the Argentine novelist Marechal emphasises his subversive approach in his novels to the Peronist politics of his time. Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Marechal as a Christian apologist, arguing instead that Marechal's `metaphysical' novels are really metafictional, ludic exercises informed by ironic scepticism.Adán Buenosayres (1948) inverts the Christian-Platonist narrative of redemption through the Logos; in El Banquete de Severo Arcángelo (1965) Marechal, tongue firmly in cheek, leads his readers on a metaphysical wild-goose chase; and in Megafón, o la guerra (1970) he finally lays apocalypticism to rest. The close readings of his novels presented in this book help to lay the theoretical groundwork underpinning Marechal's reinscription incontemporary Argentine culture.
Author: Elizabeth Alexander
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Published: 2005-10
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fourth collection of poems by the author recalls over a century of African American traditions, knitting together a blend of history, biography, personal experience, pop culture, and dreamscape.
Author: James I. Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-07
Total Pages: 713
ISBN-13: 1107037476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.
Author: Tadeusz Rachwał
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cliff McMahon
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discourse of the sublime, in this study, becomes positioned in new perspectives when an amalgamation is made between major classical theorists and contemporary theorists, leading to something like an anatomy of the sublime presented here as a theory of modes. This amalgamation blends the sublimicist concepts of Longinus, Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Herbert Weiskel, Paul Crowther, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Frances Ferguson, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton, Harold Bloom, David Nye, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Sartre, and Jung. The treatment of Sartre and Jung shows that they generated major changes in the thought climate which established new modes of sublime experience recognized in modern art. This study seeks to elucidate not only the standard core concepts of the theorists, but also to bring to new prominence certain neglected religious. Offering important innovative enlargements of the basic terminology for the discourse field, this study opens new doors to the analysis of sublime experiences and sublime objects, and thus new doors to the analysis of art works and artists' programs, as well as new extensions of aesthetic theory.