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The Romantic Sublime : Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence
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"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 an...
"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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- Thomas Weiskel
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- English
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- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- ©[2019]
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- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781421436166, 9780801833472, 1421436140, 1421436167, 9781421436142, 9780801817700, 9781421436159, 1421436159
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- on1127768628
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- 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.
- 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
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- romanticism (form of expression)
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- Transcendence [Philosophy]
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- Romanticism.
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- Romanticism.
- Transcendence (Philosophy)
- Sublime, The.