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  1. Reinventing the Sublime
    Post-Romantic Literature and Theory
    Author: Vine, Steven
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Sussex Academic Press, Chicago

    Reinventing the Sublime looks at the return of the sublime in postmodernity, and at intimations of a?post-Romantic' sublime in Romanticism itself. The sublime is explored as a discourse of?invention'? taking the Latin meaning of to?come... more

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    Reinventing the Sublime looks at the return of the sublime in postmodernity, and at intimations of a?post-Romantic' sublime in Romanticism itself. The sublime is explored as a discourse of?invention'? taking the Latin meaning of to?come upon',?find',?discover'? that involves an encounter with the new, the unregulated and the surprising. Lyotard and Žižek, among others, have reconfigured the sublime for postmodernity by exceeding the subject-centred discourse of Romantic aesthetics, and promoting not a sublime of the subject, but of the unpresentable, the?Real', the unknown, the other

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781782840008; 1782840001; 9781782840015; 178284001X
    Subjects: Sublime, The, in literature; English literature; American literature; Romanticism; Postmodernism (Literature); Sublime dans la littérature; Littérature anglaise - Histoire et critique; Romantisme; Postmodernisme (Littérature); romanticism (form of expression); LITERARY CRITICISM - General; American literature; English literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Romanticism; Sublime, The, in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
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    Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reinventing the Sublime; Part I: Romantic Totality; 1 William Blake's Materialities; 2 Mary Shelley's Bodies; 3 Thomas De Quincey's Identifications; Part II: Modernist Alterity; 4 T.S. Eliot's Intensities: The Waste Land; 5 Virginia Woolf's Disjunctions: Mrs Dalloway; 6 Djuna Barnes's Night Life: Nightwood; Part III: Postmodern Temporality; 7 Thomas Pynchon's Entropy: The Crying of Lot 49; 8 D.M. Thomas's Anamnesis: The White Hotel; 9 Toni Morrison's Belatedness: Beloved; Notes; Index.