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Book The Sublime

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  • Author : Philip Shaw
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2017-04-21
  • ISBN : 1317508874
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book The Sublime written by Philip Shaw and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at: Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chapters The legacy of the earliest classical theories, through those of the long eighteenth century to modernist, postmodernist and avant-garde conceptions of the sublime Critical Introductions to major theorists of the sublime such as Longinus, Burke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan and Žižek The significance of the concept through a range of literary readings, including the Old and New Testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the Romantic period to the present day How the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir The influence of the sublime on recent debates in the fields of politics, theology and psychoanalysis. Offering historical overviews and explanations, this remarkably clear study is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.

Book The Sublime Reader

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  • Author : Robert R. Clewis
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-11-29
  • ISBN : 1350030171
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The Sublime Reader written by Robert R. Clewis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing voices and traditions that have often been excluded. As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and allied disciplines, from art criticism and literary theory, to gender and cultural studies and environmental philosophy. The anthology includes brief introductions to each selection, reading or discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and index – making it an ideal text for building a course around or for further study. The book's apparatus provides valuable context for exploring the history and contemporary views of the sublime.

Book Egalitarian Sublime

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  • Author : Williams James Williams
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-11
  • ISBN : 1474439144
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Egalitarian Sublime written by Williams James Williams and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We call sublime those things and experiences supposed to be the very best. But what if the best actually leads to inequality and exploitation? Williams critiques the sublime over its long history and in recent returns to sublime nature and technologies. Deploying a new critical method that draws on process philosophy, he shows how the sublime has always led to inequality. This holds true even where it underpins ideas of cosmopolitan enlightenment, and even when refined by Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Zizek. Against the unjust legacies of the traditional sublime, James Williams defends a new, anarchist sublime: multiple, self-destructive and temporary; opposed to any idea of highest value to be shared by all but always imposed on the powerless.

Book Sublime

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  • Author : Christina Lauren
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-10-14
  • ISBN : 1481413708
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Sublime written by Christina Lauren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True love may mean certain death in a ghostly affair of risk and passion from New York Times bestselling duo Christina Lauren, authors of Beautiful Bastard. Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling author of Shatter Me calls Sublime “a beautiful, haunting read.” When Lucy walks out of a frozen forest, wearing only a silk dress and sandals, she isn’t sure how she got there. But when she sees Colin, she knows for sure that she’s here for him. Colin has never been captivated by a girl the way he is by Lucy. With each passing day their lives intertwine, and even as Lucy begins to remember more of her life—and her death—neither of them are willing to give up what they have, no matter how impossible it is. And when Colin finds a way to physically be with Lucy, taking himself to the brink of death where his reality and Lucy’s overlap, the joy of being together for those brief stolen moments drowns out everything in the outside world. But some lines weren’t meant to be crossed…

Book The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant

Download or read book The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant written by Robert Doran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime from Longinus to Kant.

Book Longinus on the Sublime

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  • Author : Longinus
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-06-30
  • ISBN : 0521720141
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Longinus on the Sublime written by Longinus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 1907 second edition of W. Rhys Roberts' Longinus on the Sublime. The volume contains the Greek text edited after the Paris manuscript, an extensive introduction, and a thorough and accessible translation of the main text. Roberts' introduction is divided into two parts: the authorship of the Treatise, and its content and character. Roberts is careful to place On the Sublime in its critical context, challenging both the inscription and description of this classical text. The author is thought to be an unknown teacher, and not the historical Longinus, whilst the 'sublime' in this instance is not 'the sublime' as we would commonly understand it. On the Sublime is a text which dissects the problems of literary criticism and the aesthetics of Greek literature. The lively and intelligent style of the text will ensure that Roberts' edition is enjoyed by Greek scholars and general readers alike.

Book A Community of One

Download or read book A Community of One written by Martin A. Danahay and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-08-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that the category “autobiography” was a product of nineteenth-century individualism, the author analyzes the dependence of the nineteenth-century masculine subject on autonomy or self-naming as the prerequisite for the composition of a life history. The masculine autobiographer achieves this autonomy by using a feminized other as a metaphorical mirror for the self. The feminized other in these texts represents the social cost of masculine autobiography. Authors from Wordsworth to Arnold, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Stuart Mill, and Edmund Gosse, use female lovers and family members as symbols for the community with which they feel they have lost contact. In the theoretical introduction, the author argues that these texts actually privilege the autonomous self over the images of community they ostensibly value, creating in the process a self-enclosed and self-referential “community of one.”

Book Works

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Works written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1884
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Essays written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coleridge  Language and the Sublime

Download or read book Coleridge Language and the Sublime written by C. Stokes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both his poetry and prose, it depicts Coleridge as a thinker of 'the limit' with contemporary force.

Book Essays and letters

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Essays and letters written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare s Sublime Ethos

Download or read book Shakespeare s Sublime Ethos written by Jonathan P. A. Sell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. More specifically, it explores how Shakespeare generates a sublime mood or ethos which predisposes audiences intellectually and emotionally for the full experience of sublime pathos, explored in the companion volume, Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos. To do so, it examines Shakespeare’s invention of sublime matter, his exploitation of the special characteristics of the Elizabethan stage, and his dramaturgical and formal simulacra of absolute space and time. In the process, it considers Shakespeare’s conception of the universe and man’s place in it and uncovers the epistemological and existential implications of key aspects of his art. As the argument unfolds, a case is made for a transhistorically baroque Shakespeare whose "bastard art" enables the dramatic restoration of an original innocence where ignorance really is bliss. Taken together, Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos and Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos show how Shakespearean drama integrates matter and spirit on hierarchical planes of cognition and argue that, ultimately, his is an immanent sublimity of the here-and-now enfolding a transcendence which may be imagined, simulated or evoked, but never achieved.

Book Sublime   5 at the Door

Download or read book Sublime 5 at the Door written by Ryan Cady and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CELEBRATE THE SOUNDS OF SOCAL'S FAVORITE SONS WITH THIS OFFICIAL ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL! After teenage pals Bud and Eric form a band in high school, it takes a fateful meeting with a new kid named Bradley to discover the blend of punk-rock and reggae that would define an era. Xanadu meets Superbad in this heartfelt anthology of Sublime legends brought to life by Ryan Cady (Infinite Dark, Poppy’s Inferno) and a cadre of the industry’s most talented illustrators. Featuring a brand new cover by Sublime logo creator Opie Ortiz!

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1030 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Longinus on the Sublime

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  • Author : W. Rhys Roberts
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-08-16
  • ISBN : 0429647964
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Longinus on the Sublime written by W. Rhys Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, this book contains the full Greek text of Longinus on the Sublime, alongside the English translation.

Book World Affairs

Download or read book World Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Annual report of the American Peace Society.

Book Resounding the Sublime

Download or read book Resounding the Sublime written by Miranda Eva Stanyon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic category in English and German literatures of the long eighteenth century from a musical perspective and shows how sonorous sublimes lay at the heart of a central and transformative discourse. For Enlightenment and Romantic era listeners, the musical sublime represented a sonic encounter of the most extreme kind, one that tested what humans were capable of feeling, imagining, thinking, and therefore becoming. The sublime and music have not always sung from the same hymn sheet, Stanyon observes. She charts an antagonistic intimacy between the two, from the sublime's rise to prominence in the later seventeenth century, through the upheavals associated with Kant in the late eighteenth century, and their reverberations in the nineteenth. Offering readings of canonical texts by Longinus, Dryden, Burke, Klopstock, Herder, Coleridge, De Quincey, and others alongside lesser-known figures, she shows how the literary sublime was inextricable from musical culture, from folksongs and ballads to psalmody, polychoral sacred music, and opera. Deeply interdisciplinary, Resounding the Sublime draws literature into dialogue with sound studies, musicology, and intellectual and cultural history to offer new perspectives on the sublime as a phenomenon which crossed media, disciplines, and cultures. An interdisciplinary study of sound in history, the book recovers varieties of the sublime crucial for understanding both the period it covers and the genealogy of modern and postmodern aesthetic discourses. In resounding the sublime, Stanyon reveals a phenomenon which was always already resonant. The sublime emerges not only as the aesthetic of the violently powerful, a-rational, or unrepresentable, but as a variegated discourse with competing dissonant, harmonious, rustling, noisy, and silent strains, one in which music and sound illustrate deep divisions over issues of power, reason, and representation.