VINE S

REINVENTING THE SUBLIME

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ISBN 13:: 9781845196752
author:: VINE S
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Sussex Academic Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2014
Pages:: 1
Dimensions:: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Genre:: Poetry, Drama & Criticism, History & Criticism, Literary Theory & Movements
Condition:: New
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Reinventing the Sublime Post-Romantic Literature and Theory by Steven Vine This book explores the enduring presence of the sublime in contemporary thought, tracing its evolution from 18th-century Romanticism to postmodern theory. Vine examines how the sublime has been reconfigured over time, shifting from a focus on individual subjectivity to an emphasis on the unknown, the unregulated, and the surprising. Through close readings of key texts by Burke, Kant, Wordsworth, De Quincey, Mary Shelley, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Thomas Pynchon, D.M. Thomas, and Toni Morrison, Vine reveals how the sublime has been reinterpreted in response to changing cultural and historical contexts. He argues that the sublime continues to encode an anxious but affirmative relationship to the ironies of temporality and history. By tracing the development of the sublime over time, Vine sheds new light on its ongoing relevance in contemporary thought, highlighting its continued capacity to express complex emotions and ideas about the human condition.

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