Personification and the Sublime: Milton to ColeridgeHarvard University Press, 1985 - Počet stran: 178 Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into ideas. In this wide-ranging, carefully argued study, Steven Knapp explains the connection between personification and the aesthetics of the sublime. Personifications, such as Milton's controversial figures of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost, were seen to embody a unique combination of imaginative power and overt fictionality, and these, Knapp shows, were exactly the conflicting requirements of the sublime in general. He argues that the uneasiness readers felt toward sublime personifications was symptomatic of broader ambivalences toward archaic beliefs, political and religious violence, and poetic fiction as such. Drawing on recent interpretations of Romanticism, allegory, and the sublime, Knapp provides important new readings of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Kant, and William Collins. His provocative thesis sheds new light on the relationship between Romanticism and the eighteenth century. |
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... Identity of cause thus begins to look like identity of substance . Analogy takes on literal force . And in fact , in the paragraph following the last quotation , Coleridge implicitly equates analogy and lit- eral identity when he warns ...
... identity and difference : the soul speaks to herself , but only through the landscape and only of her own alienation from that same harmonious medium of her speech . The plantlife derives its symbolic identity with the soul from a ...
... identity to which it tends . Once the criteria of real identity are located in the practical world of interpenetrating agencies or " powers , " the differences between effects of identical causes are likely to disappear . Instead of a ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Coleridge on Allegory and Violence | 7 |
Miltons Allegory of Sin and Death in Eighteenth | 51 |
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