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The Western theory of tradition : terms and paradigms of the cultural sublime /
"Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures that has been only partially understood: according to this concept, the act of freely receiving and handing on cultural tradition and the act of achieving moral and aesthetic freedom in sublime representation are the same phenomen...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2000]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Cultural Sublime: Descartes, Kant, and Rembrandt
- Ch. 2. The Present Experience of Priority: Rembrandt and Jeremiah (and Isaiah and Ezekiel)
- Ch. 3. The Second-State Self in the Scene of Victimization and Resistance: Hegel and Virgil
- Ch. 4. The Surrealism of "Respect" for Tradition: Virgil, Homer, Kant
- Ch. 5. Apostrophe in the Westering Sublime: The Matrilineal Muse of Homer, Virgil, Dryden, Pope, and T.S. Eliot
- Ch. 6. Counterperiodization and the Colloquial: Wordsworth and "the Days of Dryden and Pope"
- Ch. 7. The Reinvention of Desire: Milton's (and Ezekiel's) Sublime Melancholia
- Ch. 8. Self-Endangerment of Obliviousness in "Personal Culture": Goethe's "Manifold" Tasso.