The Romantic Sublime

Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence

Thomas Weiskel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

1986
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-3347-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Thomas F. Weiskel was a professor of English at Yale University.

Inhalt

Foreword
A Personal Introduction
Part I. The Sublime Moment
Chapter 1. Approaching the Romantic Sublime
Chapter 2. The Ethos of Alienation: Two Versions of Transcendence
Chapter 3. Darkning Man: Blake's Critique of Transcendence
Part II. The Psychology of the Sublime
Chapter 4. The Logic of Terror
Chapter 5. The Sublime as Romance: Two Texts from Collins
Chapter 6. Absence and Identity in the Egotistical Sublime
Part III. The Liminal Sublime
Chapter 7. Wordsworth and the Defile of the Word
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.1986
• Verlagsort: Baltimore, MD
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 340 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-8018-3347-7 / 0801833477
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3347-2 / 9780801833472
• Zustand: Neuware