Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe

Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe

Since ancient times well into our postmodern era, aesthetic treatments have regarded the experience of mediated terror a source of the sublime. However, this traditional association of the two notions suffered a severe cataclasm during the violent tragedies of the twentieth century, and it became qu...

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Auteur principal: Harasztos, Ágnes
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Français
Publié: TRANS- 2013
Sujets:
terrorisme
littérature
terrorism
literature
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:trans_772 https://doi.org/10.4000/trans.772 urn:doi:10.4000/trans.772 fr https://journals.openedition.org/trans/772 2013-02-24T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ljp1 All rights reserved Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe TRANS- Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1778-3887 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/trans Harasztos, Ágnes terrorisme littérature terrorism literature Since ancient times well into our postmodern era, aesthetic treatments have regarded the experience of mediated terror a source of the sublime. However, this traditional association of the two notions suffered a severe cataclasm during the violent tragedies of the twentieth century, and it became questionable whether such terror as that of a totalitarian state could trigger sublime at all. The aim of this essay is to outline how the traditional coupling of terror and the sublime is transformed in contemporary literary evaluations of socialist state terror based on two contemporary British novels about East-Central Europe : Paul Bailey: Kitty and Virgil, and Rose Tremain: The Road Home. Depuis les temps anciens jusqu’à l’ère postmoderne, l’expérience de la terreur médiate a toujours été traitée par les essais esthétiques comme une source de sublime. Cependant, cette association traditionnelle entre terreur et sublime s’est trouvée bouleversée par les tragédies violentes du XXe siècle, et on peut se demander si la terreur d’un état totalitaire peut déclencher le sublime. Le but de cet article est de décrire comment ce couple traditionnel de la terreur et du sublime a été transformé dans la littérature contemporaine en évaluant la terreur de l’état socialiste à partir de deux romans anglais contemporains sur l’Europe centrale et orientale : Kitty and Virgil de Paul Bailey et The Road Home de Rose Tremain.
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topic terrorisme
littérature
terrorism
literature
spellingShingle terrorisme
littérature
terrorism
literature
Harasztos, Ágnes
Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe
description Since ancient times well into our postmodern era, aesthetic treatments have regarded the experience of mediated terror a source of the sublime. However, this traditional association of the two notions suffered a severe cataclasm during the violent tragedies of the twentieth century, and it became questionable whether such terror as that of a totalitarian state could trigger sublime at all. The aim of this essay is to outline how the traditional coupling of terror and the sublime is transformed in contemporary literary evaluations of socialist state terror based on two contemporary British novels about East-Central Europe : Paul Bailey: Kitty and Virgil, and Rose Tremain: The Road Home.
author Harasztos, Ágnes
author_facet Harasztos, Ágnes
author_sort Harasztos, Ágnes
title Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe
title_short Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe
title_full Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe
title_fullStr Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe
title_full_unstemmed Terror and the Sublime: Two Post-1989 British Novels about East-Central Europe
title_sort terror and the sublime: two post-1989 british novels about east-central europe
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