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: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
2021 ©2021
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| Series: | Sound in History
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | X, 274 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-9956-4 |