Resounding the sublime : music in English and German literature and aesthetic theory, 1670-1850
What does the sublime sound like? Miranda Stanyon traces competing varieties of the sublime, a crucial modern aesthetic category, as shaped by the antagonistic intimacies between music and language. In resounding the history of the sublime over the course of the long eighteenth century, she finds a...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Sound in history
Sound in History Ser. |
| Schlagworte: | Aesthetics in music Sublime, The, in literature Sublime, The, in music English literature German literature Music in literature Sublime, The Aesthetics in literature Electronic books Englisch mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 274 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | What does the sublime sound like? Miranda Stanyon traces competing varieties of the sublime, a crucial modern aesthetic category, as shaped by the antagonistic intimacies between music and language. In resounding the history of the sublime over the course of the long eighteenth century, she finds a phenomenon always already resonant. Cover -- Resounding the Sublime -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Translations and References -- Introduction -- PART I. HE RAIS'D A MORTAL TO THE SKIES -- SHE DREW AN ANGEL DOWN: ENGLISH LITERATURE, CIRCA 1670-1760 -- Chapter 1. Music as a "Bastard Imitation of Persuasion"? Power and Legitimacy in Dryden and Dennis -- Chapter 2. "What Passion Cannot Musick Raise and Quell!" Passionate and Dispassionate Sublimity with the Hillarians and Handelians -- PART II. HISSING SNAKES AND ANGELIC HOSTS: GERMAN LITERATURE, CIRCA 1720-1770 -- Chapter 3. Reforming Aesthetics: Bodmer and Breitinger's Anti-Musical Sublime -- Chapter 4. Klopstock, Rustling, and the Antiphonal Sublime -- PART III. SUBLIME BEAUTY AND THE WRATH OF THE ORGAN: ENGLISH AND GERMAN LITERATURE, CIRCA 1770-1850 -- Chapter 5. The Beauty of the Infinite: Herder's Sublimely-Beautiful, Beautifully-Sublime Music -- Chapter 6. The Terror of the Infinite: Thomas De Quincey's Reverberations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 274 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780812299564 0812299566 9780812253085 0812253086 |