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