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In the midst of a culture that has replaced human contact with cellular phones, landscapes with virtual reality, and weather balloons with space travel, the question Wallace Stevens posed nearly a century ago has grown especially perplexing "How does one stand to behold the sublime?" Bill Beckley has assembled eighteen renowned essayists to assess this ques- tion of the sublime as it does or does not exist in our apres-post, technocentric culture. Leading critics build on classical, romantic, and modernist perspectives to pose new ideas about the sublime in the contemporary context of dead gods and deconstructed art.
Contributors: Bill Beckley, Harold Bloom, Barbara Claire Freeman, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Anthony Haden-Guest, Jacques Henric Dave Hickey, Donald Kuspit, Libby Lumpkin, Thomas McEvilley, Dennis Oppenheim, Carter Ratcliff, Rene Ricard, David Shapiro, Barbara Maria Stafford, Wendy Steiner, Wallace Stevens, Mark Van Proyen, and Walt Whitman ISBN:9781581150926 
