This study looks at the return of the sublime in postmodernity literature as well as the intimations of a "post-Romantic" sublime in Romanticism itself. It examines 18th-century, Romantic, modernist, and postmodern "inventions" of the sublime alongside contemporary critical accounts of the relationship of sublimity to subjectivity, aesthetics, politics, and history. It reads Burke and Kant alongside postmodern discourses on the sublime; Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley in relation to temporality and materiality in Romanticism; and considers "modernist" inflections of the sublime in T....
This study looks at the return of the sublime in postmodernity literature as well as the intimations of a "post-Romantic" sublime in Romanticism itsel...
William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and Experience to his last epic Jerusalem, ceaselessly explored the conflicts between limitation and possibility, reason and energy, torment and joy. But the contradictions within Blake's own 'visionary' poetics are less often considered. Throughout his work, Blake powerfully dramatises the energies and agonies of his own poetic labour.
William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and Experience to his last epic Jerusal...