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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"sublime"”.
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Shelley's sublime
The sublime is a topic with a rich context in art, philosophy, religion and rhetoric. Critical discussion of Percy Shelley’s use of the sublime has frequently included connections to romantic aesthetics and the philosophy of the period. This thesis argues that Shelley utilized the sublime for …
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Sublime Underdogs
It is my hope that this collection of stories, Sublime Underdogs, uncovers the beauty and the pain in unique aspects of the human experience: a lonely young woman who is terrified of getting cancer, for instance, or a man who finds himself falling for a woman who believes she is a cat, or two …
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The Sublime Actor and the Poetics of Emotions: Agency, Affect, and the Theatrical Sublime
… traces the history of the theatrical sublime from classical, neoclassical, and British eighteenth-century texts and performances to identify the emergence of the sublime actor, a figure who demonstrates a crucial tension in affect theory and in understanding the individual subject. To …
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Hearing the Sublime: Signification of the Sublime in Solo Piano Literature of the Nineteenth Century
… theorists have admitted the signification of the sublime in music as a possibility, the nature and mechanism of that signification has not yet been treated at length with a methodology familiar to musicians or native to music theory. Within this dissertation I have conducted a survey of the …
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Sublime endeavours : connecting earth to sky
We live in an era in which we come closer everyday to conquering the elements, to a degree that earlier humans could scarcely dream of. Nearly one hundred years ago, we took to the skies, and learned to fly. Today the act of flight is an everyday experience for most people. Many of us move between …
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The dyslexic sublime: exploring the art-making process of dyslexic artists through the lens of the sublime
The connection between art and the Sublime, encompassing concepts like transcendence and the duality of pain and pleasure, is well-established. These formless and invisible concepts can be represented through art, yet research primarily focuses on renowned artists, with limited exploration into how …
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The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape
… author argued for a postcolonial reading of the sublime that takes into account the racial and gendered underpinnings of Immanuel Kant's and Edmund Burke's classic theories. The thesis used the understanding of the sublime as a lens for an analysis of the cultural politics of landscape in a range …
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Being Vulnerable: Distances of the Sublime Anthropocene
… has traditionally been understood by the terms Sublime and Anthropocene and seeks to understand where their meanings may have coincided throughout the geologic and human history of this era, the Anthropocene. This project explores these terms within the philosophical categories of the Sublime …
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The Unpresentable: Artistic Biblioclasm and the Sublime
… advances Jean-François Lyotard's work about the sublime in aesthetics as a viable theoretical framework that firmly defines artistic biblioclasm as a postmodern (rather than modem) artistic phenomenon. This connection with Lyotard's work is made possible by comparing the formlessness of the …
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The Corroded Surface: Portrait of the Sublime
… physical process is nature at its most sublime, engendering fear and power, producing the obscure and reducing form to the darkness ‘beneath all beauty as promise of its ultimate annihilation’ (Beckley, 2001: p. 72). The thesis considers corrosion as subtraction, erasure and negation in …
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An approach to the sublime of death
… is an unknown and it is final. This makes it sublime. The sublime as an aesthetic category is experienced emotionally as the moral certitude of having embraced the absolute. In that sense, the nervous system is capable of the exact same physiological responses in life. It is these responses to …
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A fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
… (1890 – 1937), analysing Lovecraft’s use of the sublime and the grotesque. This analysis employs the sublime as explained by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of The Sublime and the Beautiful (1757) and the technological sublime; and the grotesque …
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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 …
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Radiant divas: In pursuit of the queer sublime
Radiant Divas: In Pursuit of the Queer Sublime considers the importance of the figure of the diva within a queer cultural imaginary in the long twentieth century. Divas, through a performance of the sublime, productively stretch the boundaries of queerness and race into new directions. I argue that …
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Erasing the object : sculptural manoeuvres into the sublime
During the Spring of 1969, as if adopting the guise of the explorer/adventurer of yesteryear, the American artist Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973) and his artist-wifeNancy Holt (1938 - )2 travelled to the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (Roberts 2000: 552).Over a century earlier, in 1841, the American …
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Sublime Follies: Unveiling the Realm of Multiple-Reality Architectures
Architectural and photographic representations have entwined territories of research where placebased visual production is used as a heuristic means to develop innovative spatial ideas. This thesis addresses a novel architectural approach resulting from their increasingly complex production of …
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Robert Lowth's Hebraic Sublime and the "Ample Field of Poetry"
… of Robert Lowth’s theorizing of the Hebraic sublime and its posterity in the second half of the eighteenth century. I begin with an exploration of Lowth’s description of the sublime across Lectures XIV-XVII, showing how, counter to his own claims about copying Longinus, the principle that …
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Anatomia de uma crise: em defesa do sublime na contemporaneidade
O objetivo desta tese é abordar a crise do sublime na contemporaneidade. Outrora uma das principais categorias para explicar os fenômenos estéticos, o conceito é visto com desconfiança no âmbito da estética e da filosofia da arte desde finais do século XIX. Ainda que tenha experimentado uma …
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'Eve's Apples': Growing Ladies In The Brontean Sublime, 1826-1853
… that Brontë develops her own vision of the sublime as a way to enhance the often pejorative connotation of the relationship between women and Nature. Where society tried to incorporate woman into Nature, Brontë forged a more egalitarian connection. She suggests that a relationship with …
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