Solitude and the Sublime
Title | Solitude and the Sublime PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Ferguson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134977484 |
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.
Solitude and the Sublime
Title | Solitude and the Sublime PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Ferguson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134977417 |
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.
Solitude and the Sublime
Title | Solitude and the Sublime PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Ferguson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780415905480 |
Ferguson traces the development of two accounts of the sublime, Burkean empiricism and Kantian formalism, to argue that they have been definitive for subsequent discussions of the significance of aesthetics, including deconstructive criticism.
Art in the Age of Emergence
Title | Art in the Age of Emergence PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Pearce |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2015-04-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1443876658 |
This book delivers sensible emergent aesthetics, explaining the processes that happen in human minds when we share ideas as works of art, skewering the orthodoxies of contemporary art with pragmatic wisdom about why representational art thrives in the new millennium. Art in the Age of Emergence has captured the imaginations of thinkers and artists alike. This is an indispensable read for those who want to understand representational art in the 21st Century.
Kinder Than Solitude
Title | Kinder Than Solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Yiyun Li |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2014-02-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 081299602X |
A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, “one of America’s best young novelists” (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China in the 1990s, Kinder Than Solitude is the story of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed. As one of the three observes, “Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.” When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious incident in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China; all three are haunted by what really happened in their youth, and by doubt about themselves. In California, Ruyu helps a local woman care for her family and home, avoiding entanglements, as she has done all her life. In Wisconsin, Moran visits her ex-husband, whose kindness once overcame her flight into solitude. In Beijing, Boyang struggles to deal with an inability to love, and with the outcome of what happened among the three friends twenty years before. Brilliantly written, a breathtaking page-turner, Kinder Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations about human nature and life. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound insight, Yiyun Li unfolds this remarkable story, even as she explores the impact of personality and the past on the shape of a person’s present and future. Praise for Kinder Than Solitude “This is an exceptional novel, and Yiyun Li has grown into one of our major novelists.”—Salman Rushdie “Yiyun Li infuses the traditional form with a fresh, rigorous beauty and a sense of permanence and increasing value.”—Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood “[A] sleek, powerful novel about the weight of memory, the brunt of loss and the myriad ways the past can crimp the soul . . . Li gives us gifts of gorgeous prose. . . . Rarely are ordinary humans given such eloquent witness.”—The Washington Post “What makes [Kinder Than Solitude] so vivid is its humanity. . . . It is an inquiry into how the past scars us, shaping present and future, and some deeds, once committed, can never be undone.”—Los Angeles Times “[Li’s] true gift . . . is old-fashioned storytelling [and] a sense that a life, a whole life, can be captured on pages.”—The Boston Globe “A stunning, dark, and beautiful book . . . Yiyun Li writes with characteristic genius.”—Paul Harding, author of Tinkers and Enon
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Title | A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Burke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1803 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN |
An examination of the advantages of solitude
Title | An examination of the advantages of solitude PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Georg Zimmermann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1808 |
Genre | Solitude |
ISBN |