Legacies of the sublime : literature, aesthetics, and freedom from Kant to Joyce /

Legacies of the Sublime' offers a highly original, subtle and persuasive account of the aesthetics of the sublime in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and science. Christopher Kitson reveals the neglected history of how Kant?s theory of the sublime in the ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kitson, Christopher, 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Subjects:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804 > Influence.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804
Sublime, The, in literature.
Aesthetics in literature.
Sublime, The.
Sublime dans la littérature.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
Sublime.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Aesthetics in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Sublime, The
Sublime, The, in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fear and freedom: The legacies of the sublime
  • "The awakening of a Manchester": the Communist Manifesto, Chartism, industrial spectacle and the Communist subject
  • Orders of magnitude: The time machine, deep time and Wells's mathematical sublime
  • Details and detonators: The secret agent, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and the ironizing of the sublime
  • Journeys through nighttown: "Circe," "The uncanny" and the inhabited subject
  • Conclusion: The sublime beyond the uncanny.

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