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Zusatztext 'Christopher Stokes finds in Coleridge's dealings with the sublime a way into the patterns of his thinking! as they are articulated both in his poetry and in his philosophy. It is an impressive! ranging! perceptive account: the book takes on a subject that we thought we knew all about and discovers something new to say about it.' - Seamus Perry! Balliol College! Oxford University! UK Informationen zum Autor Christopher Stokes is Assistant Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth Klappentext Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both his poetry and prose, it depicts Coleridge as a thinker of 'the limit' with contemporary force. Zusammenfassung Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both his poetry and prose, it depicts Coleridge as a thinker of 'the limit' with contemporary force. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: LANGUAGE, LONGINUS, EMOTION 'Violently Agitated by a Real Passion': Longinus and Coleridge's Effusions 'The Self-Watching Subtilizing Mind': The Impassioned Self in the 1798 Fears in Solitude Quarto PART II: TERROR, BURKE, ETHICS 'Cruel Wrongs and Strange Distress': An Ethical Terror-Sublime in 'The Destiny of Nations' Chapter 4: 'My Soul in Agony': The Terrors of Subjectivity in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' PART III: REPRESENTATION, KANT THEOLOGY 'Ye signs and wonders of the element! Utter forth God': Divine Presence and Divine Withdrawal in the Natural Sublime 'What never is but only is to be': The Ontology of the Coleridgean Sublime PART IV: CONCLUSION 'A Specimen of the Sublime dashed to pieces': Sublimity in the Biographia Literaria and the Limbo constellation Endnotes Bibliography...
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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: LANGUAGE, LONGINUS, EMOTION 'Violently Agitated by a Real Passion': Longinus and Coleridge's Effusions 'The Self-Watching Subtilizing Mind': The Impassioned Self in the 1798 Fears in Solitude Quarto PART II: TERROR, BURKE, ETHICS 'Cruel Wrongs and Strange Distress': An Ethical Terror-Sublime in 'The Destiny of Nations' Chapter 4: 'My Soul in Agony': The Terrors of Subjectivity in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' PART III: REPRESENTATION, KANT THEOLOGY 'Ye signs and wonders of the element! Utter forth God': Divine Presence and Divine Withdrawal in the Natural Sublime 'What never is but only is to be': The Ontology of the Coleridgean Sublime PART IV: CONCLUSION 'A Specimen of the Sublime dashed to pieces': Sublimity in the Biographia Literaria and the Limbo constellation Endnotes Bibliography
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'Christopher Stokes finds in Coleridge's dealings with the sublime a way into the patterns of his thinking, as they are articulated both in his poetry and in his philosophy. It is an impressive, ranging, perceptive account: the book takes on a subject that we thought we knew all about and discovers something new to say about it.'
- Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford University, UK
