Blank splendour : mere existence in British romanticism /
Blank Splendour focuses on moments in British poetry and art that depict a state from which the ordinary attributes of existence, time and space, subject and object, articulation and differentiation, have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, a condition that the author ca...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2024].
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| Summary: | Blank Splendour focuses on moments in British poetry and art that depict a state from which the ordinary attributes of existence, time and space, subject and object, articulation and differentiation, have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, a condition that the author calls "mere existence." It thus shares much with what Emmanuel Levinas depicts as the situation of the mind at night, when all appearances dissolve in the dark, creating a scene in which nothing happens except for the persistence of this non-happening, the presence of the mere there is. In this state, the substantial, grounded condition of being gives way to a mode without origin, justification, destination or guarantee, revealing that any supposed ontological foundation has been erased, leaving in its wake only this erased state itself, this blank condition. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 174 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781487556044 1487556047 |