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A Study Of The Sublime In English Romantic Aesthetics, Derek T. Leuenberger
A Study Of The Sublime In English Romantic Aesthetics, Derek T. Leuenberger
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The nature and role of sublime experience has been an enduring topic of discussion in the history of aesthetics, dating back nearly 2000 years to the rhetorical sublime of Longinus. The emergence of English romanticism at the juncture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries wrought substantial change on conceptions of the sublime, driven primarily by Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley each develop a theory of sublimity grounded in the expression of unified and universal experience in human consciousness. Naturally, certain philosophical differences arise within the theoretical discourse of the authors - most …
Lost In The Savage Garden: A Nihilistic Interpretation Of Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles"., Angela S. Mcmullen
Lost In The Savage Garden: A Nihilistic Interpretation Of Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles"., Angela S. Mcmullen
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This study examines Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles in light of the nihilist tradition. Nihilism is defined in this study as the absence of meaning. Rice uses vampires to explore problems created through this philosophy that ultimately leaves a void in human existence. In a sense, this study is an exploration of the ways which humanity fails to find an adequate reason to live. Louis begins the exploration by searching for God. Unable to find supernatural answers in his animated state, he falls into spiritual decay. Lestat, however, takes an aggressive approach patterned on Fredrick Nietzsche. By killing God and giving …
Manifesting Individuality As A Heideggerian Approach To Toni Morrison's "Trilogy"., Thuy T. Tran
Manifesting Individuality As A Heideggerian Approach To Toni Morrison's "Trilogy"., Thuy T. Tran
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Within our self-defining quest to create and uncreate ourselves and our place in the world is a discourse that encompasses both our life and our literature.
Synthesizing An Understanding Of The Nature Of Culture With Literary Theories Sensitive To Culture's Presence In Texts., Janet L. Sutherland
Synthesizing An Understanding Of The Nature Of Culture With Literary Theories Sensitive To Culture's Presence In Texts., Janet L. Sutherland
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The selection of the theme "Cross-Cultural Criticism" for the 1990 Summer Institute of the National Council of Teachers of English signaled that "multiculturalism" had become more than a buzzword; it was a "prized awakening" (Burton 115), but not without its critics.
Memory And Remembrance In Selected Nonfiction Works Of Elie Wiesel, Jordana L. Nissen
Memory And Remembrance In Selected Nonfiction Works Of Elie Wiesel, Jordana L. Nissen
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Although nonfictional writing provides critical insights into history in ways that fictional writing never could, it is very often relegated to a “second-class citizen” status in the realm of literary criticism and appreciation. Literacy tradition has created a hard line between literature, specifically novels and short stories and poetry, which we regard as created fictions and nonliterary test – journalism, biography, history, essays, and so on- which we think of as records of actuality. This distinction is what prevents us from applying to nonfiction the analytical tools we use to uncover the secrets of "literary art. (McCord 748)