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Author : Joe Scullion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Sublime Or Spectacle? written by Joe Scullion and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Gunderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316240975
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Sublime Seneca written by Erik Gunderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extended meditation on ethics in literature across the Senecan corpus. There are two chapters on the Moral Letters, asking how one is to read philosophy or how one can write about being. Moving from the Letters to the Natural Questions and Dialogues, Professor Gunderson explores how authorship works at the level both of the work and of the world, the ethics of seeing, and the question of how one can give up on the here and now and behold instead some other, better ethical sphere. Seneca's tragedies offer words of caution: desire might well subvert reason at its most profound level (Phaedra), or humanity's painful separation from the sublime might be part of some cruel divine plan (The Madness of Hercules). The book concludes by considering what, if anything, we are to make of Seneca's efforts to enlighten us.
Author : Jason Frank
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190658150
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Democratic Sublime written by Jason Frank and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a series of articles written for the Neue Rhenische Zeitung in 1850, later published by Friedrich Engels as The Class Struggles in France, Karl Marx looked back on the failed French revolution of 1848 and attempted to explain how the democratic aspirations that inspired the February assault on the July Monarchy-and promised to fulfill the dashed hopes of 1789, 1792, and 1830-also led to its termination in the reactionary popular dictatorship of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Popular sovereignty, which had so often defined the emancipatory visions of two generations of radical activists and thinkers was now not only an obstacle to genuine emancipation, but a plebiscitary source of power for newly emergent forms of political domination. Bonapartism became, for Marx, an important way of understanding the complex internal dynamics of popular-and later "populist"-authoritarianism. It is an analysis that continues to resonate powerfully today. The national enthusiasm that propelled the revolution forward, and which overturned the hated regime of Louis Phillippe in three glorious days, had successfully established for the first time in history a parliamentary republic based in universal male suffrage. The Second Republic's provisional government was immediately thrown into a legitimation crisis, however, by the underlying sectional, parliamentary, and class conflicts lurking beneath its illusory foundation in the people's unitary will. When the popular classes of Paris returned to the barricades in June to protest the conservative government's closure of the National Workshops-and to convert the political revolution into a social revolution based in the "right to work"-they were abandoned by their fellow citizens and thousands were massacred in the streets by Cavaignac's National Guard. The "fantastic republic" built around the pretensions of national unity, Marx proclaimed, quickly "dissolved in powder and smoke." Tocqueville described the June days as a "slave's war," and in its aftermath the Party of Order quickly consolidated its power against any furthering of revolutionary aspiration"--
Author : Vanessa Essler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Sublime Spectacle written by Vanessa Essler and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sublime Spectacle is a cross-genre work blending primarily steampunk and horror with political commentary. Lenora Leahill, an ambitious, sharp-witted yet naïve heiress, steps out in the ash-covered city of Canimere to make her mark on society. When she discovers popular devices to inject knowledge straight into the mind are connected to a plague of insanity, Lenora's drive for social progress lands her in the midst of a conspiracy. Suddenly in the company of Anarchists and twisted circus performers, Lenora must wade through the shadows to discover the source of the threat before they consume the country--unless death or madness find her first.
Author : Cian Duffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308781
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Cultures of the Sublime written by Cian Duffy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Traditionally, the sublime has been associated with impressive natural phenomena and has been identified as a narrow aesthetic or philosophical category. Cultures of the Sublime: Selected Readings, 1750-1830: - Recovers a broader context for engagements with, and writing about, the sublime - Offers a selection of texts from a wide range of ostensibly unrelated areas of knowledge which both generate and investigate sublime effects - Considers writings about mountains, money, crowds, the Gothic, the exotic and the human mind - Contextualises and supports the extracts with detailed editorial commentary Also featuring helpful suggestions for further reading, this is an ideal resource for anyone seeking a fresh, up-to-date assessment of the sublime.
Author : Temenuga Trifonova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315299135
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime written by Temenuga Trifonova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an "event" (temporal), from its conceptualization in terms of our failure to "cognitively map" the decentered global network of capital or the rhizomatic structure of the postmetropolis (spatial), to its neurophenomenological redefinition in terms of the new temporality of presence produced by network/real time (temporal). This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political values coded in it. It offers a map of the contemporary sublime in terms of the limits—cinematic, cognitive, neurophysiological, technological, or environmental—of representation.
Author : Christopher Kitson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438474172
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Legacies of the Sublime written by Christopher Kitson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Legacies of the Sublime offers a highly original, subtle, and persuasive account of the aesthetics of the sublime in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and science. Christopher Kitson reveals the neglected history of how Kant’s theory of the sublime in the Critique of Judgment cast a shadow over the next century and more of literature and thought. In each chapter, close readings weave together literary works with philosophical and scientific ones in order to clarify the complex dialogues between them. Through these readings, Kitson shows how the sublime survived well after the heyday of romanticism as a way of representing human freedom. This new context produces fresh interpretations of canonical literary works, by Thomas Carlyle, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce, with reference to important theoretical texts by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Kitson follows the sublime’s various manifestations and mutations, through the nineteenth century’s industrial grandeur and the vertiginous prospects of deep time, into the early twentieth century’s darkly ironic and uncanny versions. A welcome contribution to the study of the long nineteenth century, this work reveals an unexamined chapter in intellectual history and in the story of the modern self. “Kitson is well versed in the theory of the sublime and demonstrates detailed knowledge and understanding of primary texts and contexts. His close readings of key passages contribute to a richly textured, persuasive argument.” — Philip Shaw, author of The Sublime
Author : C. Duffy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137332182
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830 written by C. Duffy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landscapes of the Sublime examines the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Drawing on a range of scholarship and historical sources, it offers a fresh perspective on the different species of the 'natural sublime' encountered by British and European travellers and explorers.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Brahmavâdin written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph O'Connor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226616703
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Earth on Show written by Ralph O'Connor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology’s prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O’Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors—including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets—borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O’Connor proves that geology’s success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, The Earth on Show rethinks the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century.
Author : Matthew Potolsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429558988
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The National Security Sublime written by Matthew Potolsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a privileged window into the nature of modern intelligence, a way of describing the curiously open secret of covert operations. The book tracks the development of the national security sublime from the Cold War to the War on Terror, and places it in a long history of efforts by artists and writers to represent political secrecy.
Author : Joshua Steven Moulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Progress, Perspective, and the Sublime Spectacle written by Joshua Steven Moulton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Sully
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Outlines of Psychology written by James Sully and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325163
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The ISLE Reader written by Michael P. Branch and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers nineteen of the most representative and defining essays from the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment over the course of its first ten years. Following an introduction that traces the stages of ecocriticism's development, The ISLE Reader is organized into three sections, each of which reflects one of the general goals the journal has sought to accomplish. The section titled "Re-evaluations" provides new readings of familiar environmental writers and new environmental perspectives on authors or literary traditions not usually considered from a green perspective. The writings in "Reaching Out to Other Disciplines" promote cross-pollination among various disciplines and methodologies in the environmental arts and humanities. The writings in the final section, "New Theoretical and Practical Paradigms," are especially significant for the conceptual and methodological terrain they map. The ISLE Reader documents the state of research in ecocriticism and related interdisciplinary fields, provides a survey of the field, and points to new methodologies and possibilities for the future.
Author : Mehdi Semati
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429894945
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book ISIS Beyond the Spectacle written by Mehdi Semati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is ISIS? A quasi-state? A terrorist group? A movement? An ideology? As ISIS has transformed and mutated, gained and lost territory, horrified the world and been its punch line, media have been central to understanding it. The changing, yet constant, relationship between ISIS and the media, as well as its adversaries’ dependency on media to make sense of ISIS, is central to this book. More than just the images of mutilated bodies that garnered ISIS its initial infamy, the book considers an ISIS media world that includes infographics, administrative reports, and various depictions of a post-racial utopia in which justice is swift and candy is bought and sold with its own currency. The book reveals that the efforts of ISIS and its adversaries to communicate and make sense of this world share modes of visual, aesthetic, and journalistic practice and expression. The short tumultuous history of ISIS does not allow for a single approach to understanding its relation to media. Thus, the book’s contributions are to be read as contrapuntal analyses that productively connect and disconnect, providing a much-needed complex account of the ISIS-media relationship. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Scenes from the Sublime Spectacle "Everywoman : Her Pilgrimage in Quest of Love" written by and published by . This book was released on 1912* with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Hillerman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060923520
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Best of the West written by Tony Hillerman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-09-23 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sterling collection of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction evoking the unique spirit of the West and its people, selected and introduced by one of today's premier chroniclers of the Western landscape and a New York Times bestselling author.
