Legacies of the sublime : constructions of autonomy and agency in selected modern literature and thought

This thesis claims that the sublime constitutes an influence on a variety of canonical works in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that Kant's theory of a sublime which reveals to the subject its capacity for autonomous action initiates a variety of discursive treatments re...

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Main Author: Kitson, Christopher
Published: Queen's University Belfast 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695388