This book is a historical-textual study about transformations of
the aesthetics of the sublime"the literary and aesthetic quality of
greatness under duress"from early English Romanticism to the New
Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the
former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous
moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of
the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural
movements built on the excessive and capacious nature of the
sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. The
author further postulates, through critical analysis several works,
that these aesthetic practices of modernity suggest a deliberate
historical hyperbolization of literary agency. Such an agency is in
turn constructed imaginatively and affectively as a means to
redress different cultures' traumatic encounter with modernity. The
volume will be of interest to scholars including undergraduate and
graduate students of Romanticism, philosophy, history, English
literature, Chinese literature, comparative literature, and
(comparative) cultural studies.
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