Musically sublime: indeterminacy, infinity, irresolvability
This text rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. It performs this deconstruction by juxtaposing 18th- and 19th-century conceptions of the infinite, Sehnsucht, the divided self, and unconscious drives with contemporary readings of instrumental music.
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- Full title :Musically sublime : indeterminacy, infinity, irresolvability / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth.
Summary
This text rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. It performs this deconstruction by juxtaposing 18th- and 19th-century conceptions of the infinite, Sehnsucht, the divided self, and unconscious drives with contemporary readings of instrumental music.
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- Publication Date:2009.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780823235452, 0823235459, 9780823246472, 0823246477, 9780823237982, 0823237982, 1282699075, 9781282699076, 9786612699078, 6612699078, 9780823230648, 0823230643
- oclc:ocn657608606
- LC Classification:ML3877
- Dewey Decimal:781.1/7
Table of Contents
Empty signs and the Burkean sublime -- Sehnsucht, music, and the sublime -- Ruins and (un)forgetfulness : a genealogy of the musically sublime -- Sounds like now : form, contrariness, Romanticism, and the postmodern sublime -- Anxiety : the sublime as trauma and repetition -- Coda: The sublime, intermedially speaking.
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