Abstract
This article surveys the sublime in Danish romantic literature as well as its partly neglected reception by scholars of Danish Romanticism. Theoretically, it is argued that there has been a tendency to focus either on the sublime’s philosophical implications (citing Immanuel Kant) or on the rhetorical figures and tropes of the sublime (“Longinus”). In the article, it is claimed that a comprehensive understanding of the sublime needs to address both its rhetorical dimension (going back to “Longinus”) and Kant’s philosophy of the sublime in the 18th Century. It is suggested that one needs to address how the philosophical content interacts with figures and tropes, when analyzing literature of the sublime. An integrated reading strategy is then exemplified in a comparative interpretation of Jens Baggesen’s poem “Paa Spidsen af St. Gottard” and Schack von Staffeldt’s poem “Paa Toppen af Mont-Cenis”. This analysis challenges the received notion that Baggesen’s poem is superior to that of Staffeldt.
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- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
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- Det ophøjede i dansk romantik og en figurativ-filosofisk vurdering af Jens Baggesen og Schack von Staffeldts digterdyst
- The North seen from the South in the Spanish reception of Selma Lagerlöf
- Dangerous Vicinity: Theorizing the Neighbour in August Strindberg’s “The Roofing Ceremony”
- The female detective as the child who needs to know. Saga Norén as an example of potent yet dysfunctional female detectives in contemporary Nordic Noir
- Group genitive in Swedish – s-genitive as a phrase marker
- Generics in Mainland Scandinavian languages
- Nordischer Klang
- Nordischer Klang 2017: Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich. Zeichenwelten/Welten zeichnen
- Comics creation as a social experiment: Simon Gärdenfors’ playful performance
- An Anatomy of Facelessness: On Halfdan Pisket’s Dansker Trilogy
- Stripping H.C. Andersen. Peter Madsen’s Historien om en mor (or, what a graphic novel adaptation can do that its literary source cannot)
- Reviews
- Olle Ferm et. al. (Hg.):The Eufemiavisor and Courtly Culture. Time, Texts and Cultural Transfer. Papers from a Symposium in Stockholm 11–13 October 2012
- Laura Sonja Wamhoff:Isländische Erinnerungskultur 1100–1300. Altnordische Historiographie und kulturelles Gedächtnis
- Jana Krüger, Vivian Busch, Katharina Seidel, Christiane Zimmermann u. Ute Zimmermann (Hg.):Die Faszination des Verborgenen und seine Entschlüsselung – Rāði sāʀ kunni. Beiträge zur Runologie, skandinavischen Mediävistik und germanischen Sprachwissenschaft
- Jón Karl Helgason:Echoes of Valhalla. The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas
- Alessia Bauer, Kurt Schier (Hg.) mit einem Nachtrag von Peter Landau:Konrad Maurer, Reise nach Island (im Sommer 1858)
- Margareta Petersson & Rikard Schönström (eds.):Nordens litteratur
- Matthias Egeler:Islands in the West. Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Íslenzkt þjóðerni: Jón Jónsson Aðils’ Iceland and the road to the future
- Det ophøjede i dansk romantik og en figurativ-filosofisk vurdering af Jens Baggesen og Schack von Staffeldts digterdyst
- The North seen from the South in the Spanish reception of Selma Lagerlöf
- Dangerous Vicinity: Theorizing the Neighbour in August Strindberg’s “The Roofing Ceremony”
- The female detective as the child who needs to know. Saga Norén as an example of potent yet dysfunctional female detectives in contemporary Nordic Noir
- Group genitive in Swedish – s-genitive as a phrase marker
- Generics in Mainland Scandinavian languages
- Nordischer Klang
- Nordischer Klang 2017: Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich. Zeichenwelten/Welten zeichnen
- Comics creation as a social experiment: Simon Gärdenfors’ playful performance
- An Anatomy of Facelessness: On Halfdan Pisket’s Dansker Trilogy
- Stripping H.C. Andersen. Peter Madsen’s Historien om en mor (or, what a graphic novel adaptation can do that its literary source cannot)
- Reviews
- Olle Ferm et. al. (Hg.):The Eufemiavisor and Courtly Culture. Time, Texts and Cultural Transfer. Papers from a Symposium in Stockholm 11–13 October 2012
- Laura Sonja Wamhoff:Isländische Erinnerungskultur 1100–1300. Altnordische Historiographie und kulturelles Gedächtnis
- Jana Krüger, Vivian Busch, Katharina Seidel, Christiane Zimmermann u. Ute Zimmermann (Hg.):Die Faszination des Verborgenen und seine Entschlüsselung – Rāði sāʀ kunni. Beiträge zur Runologie, skandinavischen Mediävistik und germanischen Sprachwissenschaft
- Jón Karl Helgason:Echoes of Valhalla. The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas
- Alessia Bauer, Kurt Schier (Hg.) mit einem Nachtrag von Peter Landau:Konrad Maurer, Reise nach Island (im Sommer 1858)
- Margareta Petersson & Rikard Schönström (eds.):Nordens litteratur
- Matthias Egeler:Islands in the West. Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination