To Relish The Sublime

Author : Kate Soper,Martin Ryle
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789608359

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To Relish the Sublime? by Kate Soper,Martin Ryle Pdf

More than 130 years from Matthew Arnold's pronouncement that human beings 'must be compelled to relish the sublime', education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development. In this distinctive and original work, Martin Ryle and Kate Soper explore the growing tensions and contradictions between this and the contemporary world of work, pleasure, and consumption. While critical of the hypocrisies and elitism that can attach to notions of cultural self-realization, the authors nonetheless defend its overall educational and social value. Their wide-ranging discussion takes in critiques of philosophers from Kant and Schiller to Nietzsche and Marx, and includes historically contextualized readings of novels by Wollstonecraft, Hardy, Gissing, London, and Woolf. In their sustained defense of a conception of personal worth and self-fulfillment for its own sake, Ryle and Soper not only offer a powerful critique of the continuing dominance of work in contemporary society, but also provide a compelling alternative to the standard postmodern skepticism about the relevance of high culture.

Author : Cian Duffy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009032629

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The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime by Cian Duffy Pdf

This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion considers the Romantic sublime in both European and American contexts and features essays by leading scholars from a range of national backgrounds and subject specialisms, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities. An accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction, aimed at researchers, students, and general readers alike, and including extensive suggestions for further reading, The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime is the go-to book on the subject.

Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199538744

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Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold Pdf

First published in 1869, Culture and Anarchy debates questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold asks what good culture can do and how it can best be disseminated. This edition reproduces the first book version and enables readers to appreciate its historical context and its continued importance.

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002096571

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The Cornhill Magazine by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Culture
ISBN : OXFORD:400294106

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Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold Pdf

Author : Bellringer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004657502

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The Victorian Age in Prose by Bellringer Pdf

Author : Robin Harriott
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031143830

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The Birmingham Group by Robin Harriott Pdf

The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle the lived-experience of their fellow citizens in the urban manufacturing centre which had by this time become Britain’s second city. Presumed ‘guilty by association’ with a working-class literature considered overtly propagandistic, formally conservative, or merely the naive emulation of bourgeois realism, their narratives have in consequence suffered undue critical neglect. This book repudiates such assertions by arguing that their works not only contrast markedly with other examples of working-class writing produced in the 1930s but also prove themselves responsive to recent critical assessments seeking a more holistic and intersectional approach to issues of working-class identity.

Author : Ruben Quintero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405171991

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A Companion to Satire by Ruben Quintero Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100501194Y

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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030073970

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Every Saturday by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1739
Category : Books
ISBN : NYPL:33433087363176

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The History of the Works of the Learned by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wanlin Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000391848

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Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic by Wanlin Li Pdf

As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, "global ambiguity," and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre. The author defines "global ambiguity" as occurring in texts whose internal evidence supports equally plausible and yet mutually exclusive interpretations. Combining insights from narrative theory and cultural studies, she investigates the narrative origin of global ambiguity and the ways in which it produces culturally meaningful readings. Canonical works and obscure ones from American gothic authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James are reexamined. This study reveals that the nineteenth-century American gothicists developed the gothic into an aesthetically sophisticated mode that engaged intensely with the pressing problems of American society, including moral citizenship, slavery, and the social status of women, and reimagined social realities in politically constructive manners. Literary scholars, students, and general readers interested in gothic literature, American literature, or narrative theory will find this book informative and inspiring.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1754
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000225253

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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Ten Volumes Complete by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : ESSAY.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019667426

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An essay on the objects of taste by ESSAY. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1764
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11258094

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The Works of A. Pope, Esq by Anonim Pdf