Personification and the Sublime: Milton to ColeridgeHarvard University Press, 1985 - 178 Seiten Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into ideas. In this wide-ranging, carefully argued study, Steven Knapp explains the connection between personification and the aesthetics of the sublime. Personifications, such as Milton's controversial figures of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost, were seen to embody a unique combination of imaginative power and overt fictionality, and these, Knapp shows, were exactly the conflicting requirements of the sublime in general. He argues that the uneasiness readers felt toward sublime personifications was symptomatic of broader ambivalences toward archaic beliefs, political and religious violence, and poetic fiction as such. Drawing on recent interpretations of Romanticism, allegory, and the sublime, Knapp provides important new readings of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Kant, and William Collins. His provocative thesis sheds new light on the relationship between Romanticism and the eighteenth century. |
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... ideal of perfect , self - originating agency / that no one really expects or wants to fulfill . To " experience " the sublime was not quite , as some historians have argued , to identify oneself with a transcendent ideal of pure ...
... ideal of genius that Coleridge would oppose to fanatic scrib- bling . Instead , he now has in mind a triple distinction . The proper ideal is not this polar opposite to fanaticism , but rather the medium between these two opposite ...
... ideal answer to the Enlighten- ment's ambivalence toward alien belief and archaic literature . But the very combination of qualities that makes the figure an ideal solution to a theoretical paradox — the desire for simul- taneous ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Coleridge on Allegory and Violence | 7 |
Miltons Allegory of Sin and Death in Eighteenth | 51 |
Urheberrecht | |
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