Essays about: "the sublime."

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  1. 26. Walking toward the meeting of Saint Olav : A shared aesthetic project in th North of Scandinavia and the central plateau of the Iberian Peninsula

    University essay from Kungl. Konsthögskolan

    Author : Juan Manuel González; [2016]
    Keywords : walk-art; participatorrial; pilgrimage; inner-journey; relational; S:t Olavsleden; Scandinavia; Spain;

    Abstract : On June 3rd 2015, I started in Sundsvall a pilgrimage known as S:t Olavsleden that crosses through the most agnostic countries on the world, Sweden and Norway. I got Research funding by Royal Insitute of Art in Stockholm to carry out the project; there was an open call to people participate in it. READ MORE

  3. 27. “I smiled – for what had I to fear?” A Study of Edgar Allan Poe’s Sublime.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Isabelle Sanne; [2015-02-10]
    Keywords : Gothic fiction; Edgar Allan Poe; sublime; uncanny;

    Abstract : Abstract: This essay explores the aesthetics of the sublime in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories in order to clarify how Poe’s sublime is moving away from the Romantic conception of the sublime. Through Poe’s imaginative writing – his way of presenting impressive, yet disturbing, portraits of the human experience of horror – his work deals not only with aspects of the sublime but is also largely influenced by elements of the uncanny. READ MORE

  4. 28. On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Andria Nyberg Forshage; [2015]
    Keywords : aesthetics; becoming; erasure; excessive object; feminine sublime; feminist aesthetics; literary theory; monstrosity; sublimity; transgender theory; trans women s writing; transmisogyny; unrepresentability;

    Abstract : This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). READ MORE

  5. 29. Law, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Historical Specificity : An Analysis of the Juridical Paradigm of Aesthetic Genre between 1750 and 1850

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Ludwig Schmitz; [2015]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Abstract Within the conceptual framework of biopolitics and political theology, the author draws from the work of Foucault, Agamben, Derrida, Benjamin, and Schmitt to discuss the historical and theoretical conditions for an aesthetic theory structured according to a legal logic. The thesis discusses the two contrary positions of Foucault and Derrida on the historical specificity of madness, in order to argue that the same theoretical and methodological impasse emerges in subsequent discussions of biopolitics and the ontology of law. READ MORE

  6. 30. The Role of cheerleading in Megan Abbott's Dare me

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Erica Lilja Englund; [2014]
    Keywords : cheerleading; gender roles; liberation; the body; sexualisation; the sublime; sport; the feminine masculine; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay will, essentially, analyse gender roles and the possible liberation from them in the novel Dare Me by Megan Abbott. In the novel, this possible emancipation has its starting point in cheerleading. The sport has since its birth been a symbol for certain gender roles. READ MORE