bokomslag Sacramental Commodities
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Sacramental Commodities

Charles J Rzepka

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  • 344 sidor
  • 1995
This study argues that during the eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries, with the rise of a modern market economy in which the text became commodified into a material object--the book--writers fought against a perceived loss of authority by developing a theory of the rhetorical Sublime. Like the sacramental presence in the Christian church, the realm of the Sublime allowed the reader an opportunity for incorporation in a spiritual communion with an immaterial text offered by a disembodied authorial presence. Drawing on the phenomenology of reading and the cultural dynamics of gift-indebtedness and sacramentalism, Charles J. Rzepka advances his argument through a detailed examination of the life and work of writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey. The book offers both a psychobiography of De Quincey and a fresh study of the evolution of his ideas from early childhood up to publication of his masterwork, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
  • Författare: Charles J Rzepka
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780870239625
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 344
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1995-03-01
  • Förlag: University of Massachusetts Press