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Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf (Among the Victorians and Modernists) by Erin K. Johns Speese is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Exploring how the modern novel's complex depictions of parenthood restructure traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime, Erin K. Johns Speese shows how William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf use related strategies to rewrite the traditional sublime as an intersubjective experience. Speese shows that this reframing depends on the recognition of social objectification and an ethics of reciprocal empathy between mothers and fathers. She juxtaposes traditional aesthetics and Slavoj Žižek’s concept of the sublime object of ideology? with recent theoretical work regarding identity, arguing that these modern novelists construct what she terms a "sublime subject," that is, a person who functions in the space of the traditional sublime object. In revealing the possibility of transcendent emotional connection over reason, these novelists critique the objectification of the other in favor of a sublime experience that reveals the subject-shattering power of empathy. ** About the Author Erin K. Johns Speese is an instructor of writing at Duquesne University, USA.

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Author
Erin K. Johns Speese
Publisher
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781472480392
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Social Science

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