This essay examines "The Masque of the Read Death," one of Poe's most allusive tales, as a striking example of the aesthetics of the apocalyptic sublime. Combining several key ideas from Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful with numerous motifs from biblical apocalyptic symbolism, Poe's "Masque" was specifically designed to create an effect of sublime terror in the reader. Basing his image of mass death on the cholera pandemic of 1832, which killed thousands of individuals in Europe and America, Poe created a historically grounded parable of apocalyptic extinction with a myriad of connections with literary, biblical, and artistic tradition. Poe's tale echoes many of Burke's remarks on the nature and sources of sublime and beautiful effects while conveying a biblically based vision of human mortality. This essay examines "The Masque of the Read Death," one of Poe's most allusive tales, as a striking example of the aesthetics of the apocalyptic sublime. Combining several key ideas from Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful with numerous motifs from biblical apocalyptic symbolism, Poe's "Masque" was specifically designed to create an effect of sublime terror in the reader. Basing his image of mass death on the cholera pandemic of 1832, which killed thousands of individuals in Europe and America, Poe created a historically grounded parable of apocalyptic extinction with a myriad of connections with literary, biblical, and artistic tradition. Poe's tale echoes many of Burke's remarks on the nature and sources of sublime and beautiful effects while conveying a biblically based vision of human mortality.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2019
توصيف ظاهري
489-515
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
23/5
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
apocalyptic
اصطلاح موضوعی
beautiful
اصطلاح موضوعی
Burke
اصطلاح موضوعی
cholera
اصطلاح موضوعی
grotesque
اصطلاح موضوعی
sublime
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