The Romantic Sublime Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence / Thomas Weiskel.
Material type:
TextDescription: 1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 220 pages)ISBN: 9781421436166Subject(s): Sublime | Transcendence [Philosophy] | Romanticism | Romanticism | Transcendence (Philosophy) | Sublime, TheGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. LOC classification: BH301.S7 | W44 1976Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
eBook
|
Digital Library
Resources in this library are accessible in digital format e.g. eBooks or eJournals accessible online. |
BH301.S7 W44 1976 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available |
Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License
Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1976
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The sublime moment -- Approaching the romantic sublime -- The ethos of alienation : two versions of transcendence -- Darkning man : Blake's critique of transcendence -- pt. 2. The psychology of the sublime -- The logic of terror -- The sublime as romance : two texts from Collins -- Absence and identity in the egotistical sublime -- pt. 3. The liminal sublime -- Wordsworth and the defile of the word.
Open Access Unrestricted online access star
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.
Description based on print version record.
There are no comments on this title.