Sublime Disembodiment? Self-as-Other in Anne Carson's Decreation

Anne Carson’s Decreation (2006) interrogates both the reality of the real and the possibilities for expressing glimpsed, sublime meta‐realities. The article argues that Carson reverses conventional (masculine) responses to sublime experience, and recuperates the feminine sublime as a radical, exempl...

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Published inOrbis litterarum Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 25 - 38
Main Author Disney, Dan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2012
Subjects
creativity
poetry
the imagination
the sublime
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Summary:Anne Carson’s Decreation (2006) interrogates both the reality of the real and the possibilities for expressing glimpsed, sublime meta‐realities. The article argues that Carson reverses conventional (masculine) responses to sublime experience, and recuperates the feminine sublime as a radical, exemplary mode that removes – rather than enshrines – boundaries between the subject and immersion in the real.1
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ArticleID:OLI1041
ISSN:0105-7510
1600-0730
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0730.2011.01041.x