Search Results for the imperial sublime

... romanticism the imperial sublime Mo Yan Yan Lianke The Revolutionary Romanticisms of Mo Yan and Yan Lianke Xiaolu Ma Abstract Revolutionary romanticism has been one of the twentieth century s most in uential literary modes, particularly within the genealogy of socialist aesthetics. Its importance...

... interventionism” becomes by turns “fully equal . . . to the imperious sublime” (p. 25). This progress on the part of beauty-which is, again, the mind’s beauty-is rather gradual in Wordsworth, and so it is altogether. fitting that Kelley would seize upon two, relatively late Wordsworthian documents, Guide...

... the progressive model of history, in a demonic counter-imperialism. When a conventional English domestic order is finally restored it appears reduced, artificial, bright but fragile; while the horizons of the world around it, opened by the deeds of empire, are sublime and alarming. Imperial romance turns...

... and Fire: The Elemental Sublime in Swinburne’s Arthurian Tale and Bal’mont’s Medieval Georgian Epic Martin Bidney s Edward W. Said’s Orientalism and his more recent Culture and A Imperialism make clear, the postcolonial literary historian enjoys opportunities...

..., or deeply feel. (80 – 83)45  Similarly, in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” Byron contrasted the truth and power of the sublime ocean with the pretensions of British imperi- alism and its boast that “Britannia rules the waves”: Roll on, thou deep and dark...

..., British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire (Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 1992); Majeed, Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s “The His- tory of British India and Orientalism” (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992); Makdisi, Romantic Imperialism...

...: Anxieties of Empire (Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 1992); Majeed, Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s “The His- tory of British India and Orientalism” (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992); Makdisi, Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity...

..., British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire (Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 1992); Majeed, Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s “The His- tory of British India and Orientalism” (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992); Makdisi, Romantic Imperialism...

...: Anxieties of Empire (Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 1992); Majeed, Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s “The His- tory of British India and Orientalism” (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992); Makdisi, Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity...

...Bill Readings Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 SUBLIME POLITICS: THE END OF THE PAR” LINE By BILL READINGS THE POLITICS OF THE SUBUME An interest in the sublime...

...Henry Schwarz © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-01Schwarz.cs 11/13/00 2:06 PM Page 563 Aesthetic Imperialism: Literature and the Conquest of India Henry Schwarz It has been estimated that around 60,000 books dealing...

...Marijeta Bozovic Abstract The newest Russian poetic avant-garde wields highly aware appropriations and remediations in stark opposition to mainstream cultural phenomena, including nostalgia for the imperial and militant aestheticized politics of the Soviet Union. Efforts to think leftward beyond...

...Thomas Carmichael Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction . By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxviii + 320 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Thomas Carmichael is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He...

... of chapter 3, “Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stories of the Past,” is the Alliterative Morte Arthure, which Ingham reads as a critical and antitri- umphalist historiographical meditation on the suffering of innocents that Arthurian imperialism entails. The poem is nothing less than a “colonial...

... of chapter 3, “Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stories of the Past,” is the Alliterative Morte Arthure, which Ingham reads as a critical and antitri- umphalist historiographical meditation on the suffering of innocents that Arthurian imperialism entails. The poem is nothing less than a “colonial...

... of innocents that Arthurian imperialism entails. The poem is nothing less than a “colonial romance,” a category that embraces much of the Arthurian literature that engages with “the politics of tragedy and loss” (106) for the insular com- munities it both represents and serves. Chapter 4, “‘In Contrayez...

... historiographical meditation on the suffering of innocents that Arthurian imperialism entails. The poem is nothing less than a “colonial romance,” a category that embraces much of the Arthurian literature that engages with “the politics of tragedy and loss” (106) for the insular com- munities it both...

... of chapter 3, “Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stories of the Past,” is the Alliterative Morte Arthure, which Ingham reads as a critical and antitri- umphalist historiographical meditation on the suffering of innocents that Arthurian imperialism entails. The poem is nothing less than a “colonial...

... of innocents that Arthurian imperialism entails. The poem is nothing less than a “colonial romance,” a category that embraces much of the Arthurian literature that engages with “the politics of tragedy and loss” (106) for the insular com- munities it both represents and serves. Chapter 4, “‘In Contrayez...

... historiographical meditation on the suffering of innocents that Arthurian imperialism entails. The poem is nothing less than a “colonial romance,” a category that embraces much of the Arthurian literature that engages with “the politics of tragedy and loss” (106) for the insular com- munities it both...