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The Trivial Sublime : Theology and American Poetics by Linda Munk (auth.) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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In recent years, scholars writing about the American Sublime have defined it in terms of a landscape of absence - an inner and outer landscape characterized by vastness, by blankness, by unrelieved whiteness, and by the so-called Oedipal struggle for power. Working firmly against these received notions, Linda Munk locates the American Sublime in the seemingly insignificant things of the everyday: in small and near and common objects, in humble persons, and in what the philosopher Stanley Cavell
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Linda Munk (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312085612
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Poetry, Literary Fiction, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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