Poe and the Apocalyptic Sublime: “The Masque of the Red Death”
This essay examines “The Masque of the Read Death,” one of Poe’s most allusive tales, as a striking example of the aesthetics of the apocalyptic sublime. Combining several key ideas from Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful with numerous motifs fro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2019, Volume: 23, Issue: 5, Pages: 489-515 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849, The masque of the red death
/ Apocalypticism
/ The Sublime
/ Burke, Edmund 1729-1797, A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality CE Christian art |
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Burke
B Apocalyptic B beautiful B Sublime B Grotesque B Cholera |
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