The Romantic Sublime : Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence /
"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 do...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Open access edition |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary: | "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."--Project MUSE |
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| Item Description: | Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1976; Johns Hopkins paperback edition published in 1986. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License. Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. Foreword by Harold Bloom. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781421436166 |
| Access: | Open Access |