Solitude and the Sublime
| Author | : Frances Ferguson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781134977482 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1134977484 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Solitude and the Sublime by : Frances Ferguson
Download or read book Solitude and the Sublime written by Frances Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism.
