This paper intends to show how Henry Fuseli illustrates Macbeth’s text. First, he makes what is left unclear in the play explicit. He adds meaning to Macbeth, and uses his artwork to unravel what is at stake in key passages of the play. Then, the chiaroscuro technique enables him to further that initiative, by creating a hierarchy between the diffe...
This article looks at the gardening practices of late Victorian gardener and magazine editor William Robinson (1838-1935). It shows that those practices can be interpreted within the intellectual context of the reception of Arthur Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, mainly through his concept of the sublime. In particular, this paper demonstrates the ...
Les cinq Histoires ou Contes du temps passé qui sont ici relus au prisme de la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes se révèlent autant d’allégories célébrant, sous la douce voix de ma Mère l’Oye, les idées des Modernes : éloge de la langue française, destinée à détrôner par sa grâce naturelle les langues latine et grecque (« Cendrillon »), promotio...
This essay will argue that J.R.R Tolkien, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, uses the language of the sublime and provides nature with agency through the Ents in his fictional world in an attempt to make his readers think more about the destruction of nature in their own world. Tolkien does this through his nature writing, his depiction of t...
The dignity of Premier President of the Parliament of Paris demanded a high moral standing. Entrusted with this office in 1657, Guillaume de Lamoignon bound himself to an ethic of greatness. The only speeches preserved in manuscript volumes correspond to the last ten years of his life (1667-1677); they abound in lessons on true merit, greatness of ...
This chapter traces Milton’s ambivalent light and dark images in Paradise Lost in William Blake’s illuminated book Milton: A Poem in Two Books and John Martin’s mezzotint illustrations to Paradise Lost. It starts with Blake’s visual transposition of Milton’s ‘dark materials’, focusing on clouded light as a symbol of blindness and sublime vision, be...
Contre la tendance en esthétique à opposer goût et dégoût ou à épurer le jugement de goût, l’esthétique « non conformiste » du sublime développée par Diderot est repensée à partir de la notion de « malaise », qui fonde le sublime chez Burke, et avec l’Anthropologie de Kant pour intégrer le dégoût dans le sublime. À cette condition, on peut rendre a...
Published in Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques
Some sixty authenticated poems written by Mao Zedong were the subject of studies that highlight the relationship between the statesman and his literary talent, through rather socio-political or psychological approaches. The present paper intends to focus on his poetic creation, by scrutinizing from the inside the textual and scriptural tension that...
This thesis explores how sensation could be central to the articulation of the sacrality of the landscape for British Protestants in the first half of the eighteenth century. It examines the relationship between attitudes to the visible past and the history of emotions, the senses, and experience to reveal the religious inflections of the eighteent...
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