Thinking with a Mountain: A Narratological and Rhetorical Analysis of the Haptic Sublime in Jon Krakauer’s Mountaineerin...
edition: 1st edition / status: published
Repurposing sublime religious heritage: preserving experiential value during transformation
During adaptive re-use of heritage obejcts, experiential value of characteristics is often overlooked. This project highlights the importance of the effect of architecture on the psyche and how integrating this into the value assessment, a more holistic heritage approach can be realised. Religious heritage often has the capacity to astonish, overwh...
“He Wanted to Live”: Hunting, Local Fictionality, and the Sublime in Gerald Vizenor’s Interior Landscapes: Autobiographi...
status: published
The Sublime as a Rhetorical Strategy in the Contemporary American Ecobiographical Memoir
peer reviewed / In the late twentieth-century, as Jennifer Richards claims, the Wordsworthian conception of the sublime as evoking the inexpressible and overwhelming power of nature was a “revolt against rhetoric” (2008, 105). More specifically, she explains that philosopher Jean-François Lyotard embraces the sublime because it resists “technè” in ...
The Sublime as a Rhetorical Strategy in the Contemporary American Ecobiographical Memoir
In the late twentieth-century, as Jennifer Richards claims, the Wordsworthian conception of the sublime as evoking the inexpressible and overwhelming power of nature was a “revolt against rhetoric” (2008, 105). More specifically, she explains that philosopher Jean-François Lyotard embraces the sublime because it resists “technè” in favor of a more ...
Hunting for the Sublime in Steven Rinella’s Memoirs and Still Lifes
This essay explores the avenues opened and limits set by the sublime when used a rhetorical and narratological strategy for figuring and describing non-human animals in the memoir, an understudied but promising genre for examining human/nonhuman relationships. Since few (if any) recent theories of the sublime provide a viable revision of the fraugh...
Hunting for the Sublime in Steven Rinella’s Memoirs and Still Lifes
peer reviewed / This essay explores the avenues opened and limits set by the sublime when used a rhetorical and narratological strategy for figuring and describing non-human animals in the memoir, an understudied but promising genre for examining human/nonhuman relationships. Since few (if any) recent theories of the sublime provide a viable revisi...
On the Viable Sublime: Rhetorics and Narrations of Self and Environment in the Contemporary American Ecobiographical Mem...
The sublime remains a contested rhetorical and aesthetic concept whose salvageability in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and environmental humanities, among others, is still being questioned. The liveliness of the debate on this notion as well as its continuous—implicit or explicit—deployments in a plethora of literary works attest, h...
On the Viable Sublime: Rhetorics and Narrations of Self and Environment in the Contemporary American Ecobiographical Mem...
The sublime remains a contested rhetorical and aesthetic concept whose salvageability in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and environmental humanities, among others, is still being questioned. The liveliness of the debate on this notion as well as its continuous—implicit or explicit—deployments in a plethora of literary works attest, h...
Les morts parallèles de Guillaume du Bellay et Étienne de La Boétie
Dans le Tiers et le Quart Livre, Rabelais revient trois fois sur la mort de son protecteur Guillaume Du Bellay, mort héroïque associée au désastre historique, ce qui préfigure la façon dont Montaigne devait méditer les derniers instants de La Boétie, et « l’humeur mélancolique » fondant l’ethos de l’essayiste. En rapprochant ces deux figures de l’i...
