Icelandic Sublime's Connotations

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 53 - 70, 27.10.2017

Emre Say

Abstract

This paper discusses the notion of Icelandic sublime with reference to a number of
subjects identifiable or comparable with it including its relation to Romanticism,
Cartesian physical-mental schism which tends to be conciliated in Icelandic case,
Freudian pleasure principle which asserts itself in the elimination of evocatively
nature-culture dichotomy, and the 19th century versatile intellectual William Morris
for whom Iceland stood as the most exquisite available embodiment of his socialistmedievalist
Arcadia. In this respect, the paper displays an interdisciplinary outlook
as it draws on various fields inclusive of history, philosophy, folklore, languageliterature,
and last but not least psychoanalysis. 

Keywords

Iceland, Sublime, William Morris

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