The lament and the rhetoric of the sublime

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 279-306

  Austin, Linda M ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34249291453     PISSN: 08919356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2903041     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Hugh Kenner, "The Experience of the Eye: Marianne Moore's Tradition," Southem Review, n.s. 1 (1965), 760
2. See The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1974)
3. Longinus, On Great Writing (On the Sublime), trans. G.M.A. Grube (New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957), p. 6
4. See Alexiou, pp. 13, 102-3
5. These distinctions are examined in Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1979), pp. 94-95, J12. Góos is usually interchangeable with prothesis, a psychological term that can suggest the dissolving of consciousness
6. See also Dennis Kay, Melodious Tears: The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), p. 41
7. Bion, "Lament for Adonis," in The Pastoral Elegy: An Anthology, ed. Thomas Perrin Harrison, Jr., trans. Harry Joshua Leon (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1939), p. 34
8. For the differences between eighteenth-century tragedies and the new melodramas, see Booth, English Plays, I, 21, 27
9. See also the short section on melodramatic acting in Michael R. Booth, English Melodrama (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1965), pp. 190-210
10. Allardyce Nicoll, A History of English Drama, 1660-1900, 6 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1965), IV, 78-79
11. See also Kevin Newmark, "Traumatic Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and the Shock of Laughter," in Trauma: Explorations in Memory, ed. Cathy Caruth (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995), p. 253
12. See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment (1790), trans. J. H. Bernard (New York: Hafner Press, 1951), p. 96
13. See The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1976), p. 30
14. Michel Deguy, "The Discourse of Exaltation Contribution to a Rereading of Pseudo-Longinus," in Of the Sublime: Presence in Question, trans. Jeffrey S. Librett (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1993), p. 13
15. For the uses of "melancholy," "melancholia," and "depression," see Jennifer Radden, "Melancholy and Melancholia," in Pathologies of the Modern Self: Postmodern Studies on Narcissism, Schizophrenia, and Depression, ed. David Michael Levin (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1987), pp. 240-41
16. Denis Diderot, Salons, ed. Jean Seznec, 2d ed., 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), III, 134: "I stood still, my eyes wandered without fixing on any object, my arms hung at my sides, my mouth was half open" (my translation)
17. See Booth, English Melodrama, pp. 197, 205-6
18. Charles Bell, Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806), p. 88
19. Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1980), p. 97
20. see Diderot, III, 112
21. See Jean-Luc Nancy, "The Sublime Offering," in Of the Sublime, p. 53
22. See William G. Lane, Richard Harris Barham (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1967), pp. 164, 177
23. See Booth, English Plays of the Nineteenth Century, I, 3; and English Melodrama, p. 207
24. See Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp, Ballerina: The Art of Women in Classical Ballet (London: BBC Books, 1987), p. 30
25. Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, 2d ed., rev. (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1983), p. 225
26. Thomas Hardy, "During Wind and Rain," in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, ed. Samuel Hynes, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982-95), II, 239-40; ll. 24-25, 28
27. See Booth, English Plays, I, 6-g
28. See The Emergence of Prose: An Essay in Prosaics (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1987), p. 16
29. "History and Psychoanalysis," Critical Inquiry, 13 (1987), 244