Abstract
When the sublime first emerged as a rhetorical (and eventually as an aesthetic) category, its advocates were careful to dissociate it from bombast and ungoverned verbal inflation. … Efforts at rendering large emotion have always been bedevilled by the attendant vices discrediting that emotion. In failing to establoish "objective correlatives," in over-extending the resources of expression and in violating decorum, writers have missed the sublime in their very efforts to reach it.
Recommended Citation
Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning
(1993)
"Legitimate Hyperbole in Northanger Abbey ,"
University of Dayton Review: Vol. 22:
No.
1, Article 15.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/udr/vol22/iss1/15
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