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Topographies of Terror: Killarney and the Politics of the Sublime
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 January 1996
...Luke Gibbons Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Luke Gibbons Topographies of Terror: Killarney and the Politics of the Sublime Let them talk of Killarney, its lovely fine shades, Its woods and its wilds and its dreadful cascades, Its mountains, its monsters, my passions are human...
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Socializing the Sublime in American Renaissance Writers
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (3): 691–703.
Published: 01 July 1989
...Daniel T. O’Hara Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Daniel T. O Hara Socializing the Sublime in American Renaissance Writers Whence came you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips lo, they are yours and not mine. I feel...
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The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in 18th-Century England by David B. Morris
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1973) 72 (4): 616.
Published: 01 October 1973
...J. M. Armistead The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in 18th-Century England . By Morris David B. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1972 . Pp. ix , 260 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 616 The South Atlantic...
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“Theorizing in a Void”: Sublimity, Matter, and Physics in Black Feminist Poetics
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (3): 617–648.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of discursivity and materiality. Said poetics approaches a shared worry over the problem of referentiality, not in representationalist terms, as recent materialists would suggest, but rather through a poetics attentive to the racializing and sexuating dimensions of an (anti) black sublime that conditions, exceeds...
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The Child in the Broom Closet: States of Killing and Letting Die
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (3): 509–530.
Published: 01 July 2008
... contemporary social life at the catachresis of what appears to be a Schmittian strong state and a Foucauldian biopolitical state. The essay is particularly interested in the future redemptive, the catastrophic sublime, and the ethics of empathy on which these two forms of killing depend. The purpose...
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The Ubiquity of Asia: Cai Guo-Qiang's Fireworks and Spectral Marxism
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 January 2024
... and practices that engage the affective sublime. More specifically, it examines the aesthetics of fireworks for what they might offer as a lexicon to contend with the transition in cycles of capital accumulation and changes in our ideas of space and race. The article thus turns to the artist Cai Guo‐Qiang...
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The Wordsworth of Landscape: Constable, or Turner?
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (3): 252–260.
Published: 01 July 1986
... their important differences differences that affirm the strain of Romanticism shared by Wordsworth and Turner, a romanticism based on the landscape traditions of the Picturesque and the Sublime. By sustaining the tradition of the Sublime, Wordsworth and Turner may seem more conservative than Constable...
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Art in the “Post-Medium” Era: Aesthetics and Conceptualism in the Art of Jeff Wall
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2002) 101 (3): 555–572.
Published: 01 July 2002
... of beauty were dismissed as offering a fraudulent escape
from institutional and social determinations. At the same time, sublime
feeling, which, in Kant, arises from the perceptual disorder of an encounter
Art in the ‘‘Post-Medium’’ Era 557
with something...
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Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm?
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 July 1988
... that the nuclear as unthinkable [is but] the most recent version of the notion of the sublime. 9 Fer guson s idea of the sublime leans toward the high culture mode of Kantian irreplaceable subjectivity : the notion of the sublime is continuous with the notion of nuclear holocaust: to think the sub lime would...
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A World of Prettiness: Socialist Realism and Its Aesthetic Categories
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (3): 687–714.
Published: 01 July 1995
... to reality. 5 These categories will be considered (following Blanche6) predicates of aesthetic evaluations, or, in Kantian terms, predicates of judgments of taste (e.g., the beautiful, the sublime, the charm ing, the comic, etc These traditional concepts were occasionally examined in the context of Soviet...
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Mauberley, Logopoeia, and the Language of Modernism
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1984) 83 (1): 18–43.
Published: 01 January 1984
..., 1973), p. 164. Mauberley, Logopoeia 23 poetic aims. Mauberley tells us that E. P. strove to resuscitate the dead art / Of poetry, to maintain the sublime / In the old sense. Readers have accepted this statement as a fair description of Pound s or at least, the young E. P. s poetic goals. We know...
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“Coing through the Fantasy”: Screening Slavoj Žižek
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (2): 475–507.
Published: 01 April 1998
..., a fall that situates the little story of Slovenia within the metanarrative of macrocommunism even as it recollects Zizek s own Hamletlike meditations on the sublime problematic of the king-thing: Is this really him? Is the thing really with this body? Did it really die with it? 3 Screening Slavoj...
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The Eidaesthetic Itinerary: Notes on the Geopolitical Movement of the Literary Absolute
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (3): 829–851.
Published: 01 July 2001
... or eidaesthetic hybrid of literature in the modern sense. Georg
Lukács understood this perfectly. The critique of aesthetic judgment—prin-
cipally the analytic of the Beautiful, but it can be shown equally of the ana-
lytic of the Sublime...
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Hardy’s Poetry and the Ghostly Moving-Picture
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1928) 27 (3): 280–291.
Published: 01 July 1928
... that makes the magnificence of history, namely, the human will. Shelley, by ethereal magic, sublimates the human will to cloud. Hardy, by reversing the magic, condenses the cloud-stuff and brings it down to a low and sluggish lake in the human landscape. The idea of Love, the great drivingforce in Shelley s...
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The Idea of Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (2): 183–191.
Published: 01 April 1986
..., to inspiration. Addison, for example, never does so in discussing the plea sures of the imagination. Nevertheless, to some extent the century seems to have built a bridge between the two. Another concept which might be expected to lend itself to association with inspiration is the Longinian sublime. Despite...
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The Testamentary Whimper
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2004) 103 (2-3): 489–499.
Published: 01 July 2004
... of the questions with which he struggles, the related
problem of the sublime, which elicits only a stuporous witnessing of the
unpresentable. How can one bear witness to the ontological sublime if it
endlessly slips out of view? We’ll get to Lyotard’s redescription of the sub-
lime momentarily.
Very often...
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Globalizing Paradigms, or, The Delayed State of Latin American Theory
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (1): 61–83.
Published: 01 January 2007
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tends that Hispanism’s tendency to concentrate on baroque conceits, in its
analysis of art, ought to be reconsidered. Enlightenment issues, such as the
distinction between the sublime and beautiful as drawn up by Immanuel
Kant and Edmund Burke, are equally germane to Hispanic aesthetics...
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Blake’s Agitation
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (3): 753–796.
Published: 01 July 1996
... the indetermi nate to appear as a question mark. Jean-Frangois Lyotard, "The Sublime and the AvantGarde The moving of (anything) to and fro shaking. A state or condition of being moved to and fro; commotion, disturbance, perturbation. OED entry for agitation Like discourse itself, agitation is a word...
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History as Trauma, or, Turning to the Past Once Again: Germany 1949/1989
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (4): 911–947.
Published: 01 October 1997
... as an experience of sublime enthusiasm about a unique moment of openness the brief, fleeting mo ment in which the symbolic order itself collapsed. Writing in 1993 about the transformation of Eastern Europe as a whole, Slavoj Zizek observed: The most sublime image that emerged in the political upheavals...
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The Neoplatonism of William Blake by George Mills Harper
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1962) 61 (3): 429–430.
Published: 01 July 1962
... the vulgar, one must object that Blake, who ad dressed his powers not to the Truslers of the world but to children and those possessed of imagination, never held such a doctrine; and that even where he seems to cultivate obscurity he does so because his poetry is in the tradition of the sublime, and sublime...
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