Wordsworth and the Sublime
Author: Albert O. Wlecke
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Albert O. Wlecke
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Raimonda Modiano
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1985-08-12
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1349071358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Klaus P. Mortensen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9788772894430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study views the early work of William Wordsworth as partaking in a general Western European cultural movement in which the realm of the numinous is translocated from heaven to earth -- grand Nature -- and from there further on into Man's inner Nature. In this metaphysical implosion the concept of the Sublime gradually comes to signify the mental, godlike powers of Man.
Author: Thomas Weiskel
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2019-12-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1421436159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1976. In The Romantic Sublime Thomas Weiskel investigates the concept of the sublime in the poetry of English Romantic writers. His work infuses elements of structuralism and psychological thought in his attempt to describe and demystify the sublime experience—or, in his words, to "desublimate the sublime." In doing so, he demonstrates that the sublime is largely mystified, and he contrasts those with faith in the awesomeness of sublimation and those who remain skeptical of the sublime's mystifying power. In working to demystify the sublime, Weiskel emphasizes the task of intelligence by assigning morality and intellect the value of mistrust in sublimation.
Author: Frances Ferguson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1134977417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism.
Author: Warren Stevenson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780838636688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book studies and articulates the emergence from the poetical subtext of six major English romantics of "the androgynous sublime", a mode that conflates the motif of psychic androgyny (traceable as far back as the Book of Genesis and Plato's Symposium) with the mode of sublimity, first discussed by Longinus and much debated from the eighteenth century onward. Frequently echoed by the romantic poets, Milton's description of the Holy Spirit's role in the creation of the world is androgynous. Since humane creativity mirrors divine creativity, it follows that the artist qua artist muct also be androgynous - that is, endowed with what Lyrical Ballads, calls "a more comprehensive soul" than is "supposed to be common among mankind". Characterized by a flexuous, limber style and an association with androgynous subject matter, the androgynous sublime subverts conventional notions of sublimity while offering a more comprehensive model with which to supplement, of non supplant, them. The methodology of this study is to present a "counter-deconstructive" reading of the text and, where applicable, designs of Blake, as well as the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, seen from this somewhat novel but not ignoble perspective.