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On Being “Anti-Sublimed”: Early Tales of Fear and Glory at Niagara Falls [PDF]

, 2009
This essay reads accounts of travel to Niagara from the 1790s-1840s through thelens of the sublime and the picturesque. Beginning with masculine adventurers whohave special claims to the Burkean sublime, and moving onto later male and femaletravellers ...
Revie, Linda L.
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Infinity and the Sublime

, 2010
In this paper we intend to connect two different strands of research concerning the origin of what I shall loosely call "formal" ideas: firstly, the relation between logic and rhetoric - the theme of the 2006 Cambridge conference to which this paper was ...
Verelst, Karin
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Sublime in Its Magnitude : The Emancipation Proclamation

, 2007
Book Summary: Lincoln’s reelection in 1864 was a pivotal moment in the history of the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation had officially gone into effect on January 1, 1863, and the proposed Thirteenth Amendment had become a campaign issue ...
Guelzo, Allen C.
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The Sublime in Lutoslawski’s Three Poems of Henri Michaux (1961-63)

Aisthesis, 2019
The sublime in classical aesthetics arrived at a famous formulation with Kant (CPJ, Part I, Section 1, Book 2, §23–29) as a subjective quality more elevated than beauty, linked to commotion and respect followed by reaffirmation.
Marianela Calleja
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A EXPERIÊNCIA DO SUBLIME NA CRÍTICA DA FACULDADE DO JUÍZO DE KANT

Polymatheia, 2021
Para Kant, conhecimento é a submissão do sensível às faculdades transcendentais do sujeito, de acordo com a relação entre elas, teremos diferentes tipos de juízos. Quanto a juízos estéticos, se dividem em belo e sublime, assim, nosso foco analítico será
Bruno Abilio Galvão
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Sublime isterico, estremismo tragico, posthuman, massimalismo: su alcune declinazioni contemporanee

CoSMO, 2016
Starting from a discussion of the controversial notion of postmodern sublime, the paper deals with some contemporary declinations and transformations of this thorny category: the camp sublime, which can be compared with Jameson’s hysterical sublime or ...
Massimo Fusillo
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Wittgenstein and Maimonides on God and the Limits of Language [PDF]

, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to bring together two thinkers that are concerned with the limits of what can be said, Wittgenstein and Maimonides, and to explore the sense of the good life and of the mystical to which their therapeutic linguistic work ...
Verbin, N.
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A cinematographic fence and ornamental oars: experiencing the sublime in structures of urban public space

Approaching Religion, 2016
I approach the theme of the sublime experience in public urban space from the point of view of a visual artist and from one of a person walking through the city.
Denise Ziegler
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An Italo-Hebraic Bilingual Homophonous Poem [PDF]

, 2003
The following is constrained literature, a logological piece, in which the Israeli part sounds identical to the Italian. From the English translations provided below, one can see that the poem(s) make sense, although it has a surreal, evocative flavour,
Zuckermann, Ghil \u27Ad
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The Sublime Landscape of the Mediterranean Island in Nineteenth Century Travel Literature: From the "Locus Amoenus" to the "Locus Horribilis" [PDF]

, 2012
À partir de l’étude concrète d’une île méditerranéenne, Majorque, nous analyserons dans cet article les divers aspects du paysage insulaire méditerranéen qui insufflèrent chez le voyageur dix-neuvièmiste le sentiment du sublime : la montagne avec ses ...
Bes Hoghton, Isabelle
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