The Western Theory of Tradition: Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime

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Yale University Press, 1 ene 2000 - 293 páginas
A study of cultural tradition. Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures: according to this concept, the art of freely receiving and handing on cultural tradition and the act of achieving moral and aesthetic freedom in sublime representation are the same phenomenon.
 

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Descartes Kant and Rembrandt
1
Rembrandt and Jeremiah and Isaiah and Ezekiel
25
Hegel and Virgil
41
Virgil Homer Kant
59
The Matrilineal Muse of Homer Virgil Dryden Pope and T S Eliot
71
Wordsworth and the Days of Dryden and Pope
89
Miltons and Ezekiels Sublime Melancholia
110
Goethes Manifold Tasso
140
Baudelaires and Delacroixs Tasso roulant un manuscrit
161
Freuds Experience of Death in His Tassovian Line of Thought
180
Sarrautes Feminine Sublime of Culture
201
In Memory of Our Son Yochanan
222
Notes
243
Index
291
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Sanford Budick is professor of English, chair of the Department of English, and founding director of the Center for Literary Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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