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Reinventing the Sublime: Post-Romantic Literature and Theory
Steven Vine
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Paperback. 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. .. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Looks at the return of the sublime in post-modernity, 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 Zizek, among others, have reconfigured the sublime for post-modernity 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. 'Reinventing the Sublime' looks at 18th-century, Romantic, modernist and post-modern 'inventions' of ... Read more
Looks at the return of the sublime in post-modernity, 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 Zizek, among others, have reconfigured the sublime for post-modernity 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. 'Reinventing the Sublime' looks at 18th-century, Romantic, modernist and post-modern 'inventions' of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196752
SKU
V9781845196752
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About Steven Vine
Steven Vine is Senior Lecturer in English at Swansea University, and among many articles is the author of Blake's Poetry: Spectral Visions (1993), Emily Bronte (1998) and William Blake (2007). He is the editor of the Penguin edition of D.H. Lawrence's Aaron's Rod (1995), and of Literature in Psychoanalysis: a Reader (2005).
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