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Resounding the sublime : music in English and German literature and aesthetic theory, 1670-1850 /
"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 hea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Sound in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. Music as a "bastard imitation of persuasion"? Power and legitimacy in Dryden and Dennis
- Chapter 2. "What passion cannot musick raise and quell!" Passionate and dispassionate sublimity with the Hillarians and Handelians
- Chapter 3. Reforming aesthetics : Bodmer and Breitinger's anti-musical sublime
- Chapter 4. Klopstock, rustling, and the antiphonal sublime
- Chapter 5. The beauty of the infinite : Herder's sublimely-beautiful, beautifully-sublime music
- Chapter 6. The terror of the infinite : Thomas De Quincey's reverberations.