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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... tion " of literal identity , by appropriating all that reality to itself . In the Statesman's Manual the emphasis falls on the former danger the danger of allegory — because the book's purpose is to establish the practical authority of ...
... tion . " In the double simile of stanza 9 , according to Words- worth , the conferring , the abstracting , and the modifying powers of the Imagination , immediately and mediately acting , are all brought into conjunction . The stone is ...
... tion , 3-4 , 5 , 10-17 , 24-25 , 30 , 34- 36 , 37 , 42 , 83-84 , 133 , 149n7 , 15onn11,14 , 150-151n16 , 152n28 ; on allegory vs. symbol , 14-25 , 30 , 150n14 , 150-151n16 ; and ambiva- lence , 5 , 25 , 42–44 , 48 , 79 , 106 , 149n7 ...
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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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