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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Sublime and The Beautiful"”.
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The beautiful Gothic: an investigation into the use and development of the beautiful and death in Gothic literature
The aim of this thesis is to explore the ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful in Gothic literature. Using ideas proposed by Edmund Burke, I will argue that authors of the Gothic genre developed these ideas into a maturing relationship between the Sublime and the Beautiful, and then demonstrate …
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Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya
“Liminal Spaces and The Disabled Body” explores Edmund Burke’s aesthetic paradigms as established in his An Enquiry into the Origin of Our Notions of the Sublime and the Beautiful to recover what disability meant for an eighteenth-century audience. I examine Burney’s Camilla and Eugenia’s …
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Tautos poetika Nikolajaus Karamzino tekstuose (1787-1803 m.) /
The dissertation is devoted to the question how the nation is “imagined” in Nikolaj Karamzin’s works of the small genre. Unlike the existing tradition of researches of the problematics of the nation in Karamzin’s works, in this doctoral thesis attention is focused not on the set of his ideas, or on …
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A fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
The Creative Work: The creative work is a novel titled A Fabulist’s Alternity. It is set in an unspecified time in the future, in Perth, Western Australia, and against the background of the social and natural consequences of climate change. Spread over four days, the story centres on two …
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An Empirical Aesthetics of the Sublime and Beautiful
The sublime and the beautiful are two of the oldest, most discussed categories of aesthetic experience. In their most basic of descriptions, the sublime refers to an aesthetic experience of fear and delight, and the beautiful refers to an aesthetic experie nce of pure pleasure. explores them …