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11	The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape. Wittenberg, Hermann January 2004 (has links) In this dissertation the author argued for a postcolonial reading of the sublime that takes into account the racial and gendered underpinnings of Immanuel Kant's and Edmund Burke's classic theories. The thesis used the understanding of the sublime as a lens for an analysis of the cultural politics of landscape in a range of late imperial and early modern texts about Africa. A re-reading of Henry Morton Stanley's central African exploration narratives, John Buchan's African fiction and political writing, and later texts such as Alan Paton's fiction, autobiographies and travel writing, together with an analysis of colonial mountaineering discourse, suggest that non-metropolitan discourses of the sublime, far from being an outmoded rhetoric, could manage and contain the contradictions inherent in the aesthetic appreciation and appropriation of contested colonial landscapes. The Sublime Modern Aesthetics 18th Century, Aesthetics Early works to 1800 History Political Aspects Postcolonialism in literature Landscape Nature
12	The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape Wittenberg, Hermann January 2004 (has links) Doctor Literarum - DLit / In this dissertation the author argued for a postcolonial reading of the sublime that takes into account the racial and gendered underpinnings of Immanuel Kant's and Edmund Burke's classic theories. The thesis used the understanding of the sublime as a lens for an analysis of the cultural politics of landscape in a range of late imperial and early modern texts about Africa. A re-reading of Henry Morton Stanley's central African exploration narratives, John Buchan's African fiction and political writing, and later texts such as Alan Paton's fiction, autobiographies and travel writing, together with an analysis of colonial mountaineering discourse, suggest that non-metropolitan discourses of the sublime, far from being an outmoded rhetoric, could manage and contain the contradictions inherent in the aesthetic appreciation and appropriation of contested colonial landscapes. / South Africa Sublime Modern Aesthetics 18th Century Aesthetics Early works to 1800 History Political aspects Postcolonialism in literature Landscape Nature
13	Beasts of the Earth and Air Johnson, John Gregory 12 January 2006 (has links) These stories explore contemporary people who find their lives taking a shape they fear. These people often try to cling to their old life, control a loved one who is changing, or seek an escape. Their aspirations are often higher than where they land. Their situation resembles the writer’s situation in attempting to shape the lives of characters: they attempt to control what often cannot be controlled. contermporary fiction short fiction postmodern short stories postmodern fiction postmodernism short story collection short stories fiction post modern aesthetics fiction aesthetics literature contemporary short stories English Language and Literature

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