Musically Sublime : : Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability / / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth.

Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how, from the mid eighteenth...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Empty Signs and the Burkean Sublime
  • 2. Sehnsucht, Music, and the Sublime
  • 3. Ruins and (Un)forgetfulness: A Genealogy of the Musically Sublime
  • 4. Sounds Like Now: Form-Contrariness, Romanticism, and the Postmodern Sublime
  • 5. Anxiety: The Sublime as Trauma and Repetition
  • Coda: The Sublime, Intermedially Speaking
  • Notes
  • Bibliography