The Feminine Sublime "d0e10715"

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Pamela (Richardson), 170 n. 11

Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida (Carroll), 160 n. 34

Parerga (ornaments or frames): definition of, 113 ;

Derrida analysis of, 116 , 117 -19, 178 n. 15;

and judgments of taste, 114 -16;

in Kantian sublime, 113 , 117

Parker, Patricia, 73

Patriarchy, 4 , 10 , 47 , 72 , 151 n. 7;

definition of, 169 n. 2;

feminine misogyny as symptom of, 69 , 75 , 169 n. 2;

oppression of females by, 75 , 79 , 100 , 102 ;

sea as alternative to, 31 -32

Paul, Saint (apostle), 147 -48

Paulson, Ronald, 45 ;

Representations of Revolution (1789-1820),162 n. 10, 165 n. 31;

"Versions of a Human Sublime," 154 -55n. 9

Pease, Donald E., 44 -45;

"Sublime Politics," 161 -62n. 7

Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event (Lyotard), 181 n. 38

Peri Hypsous (Longinus), 3 -4, 13 , 18 , 155 -56n. 14.

See also Longinus

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Perry, Ruth: Women, Letters, and the Novel,77 , 172 -73n. 20

Phainetai moi (Sappho): comparison of Homer and, 17 -19, 20 , 22 ;

opposites in, 13 -15, 16 , 38 , 155 -56n. 14;

relationship between auditor and orator in, 27 -28;

and transfer of power, 20 -23.

See also Sappho

Phillips, Adam, 43 , 161 n. 6

Philological Quarterly: "Frankenstein: The Mother, the Daughter, and the Monster" (Youngquist), 174 n. 34

Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, The (E. Burke), 155 n. 10, 170 n. 11;

aesthetics categories in, 45 , 47 -50;

and gender differences, 3 -4, 47 -50, 72 , 150 n. 5;

as speculative work, 40 -45.

See also Burke, Edmund

Plato, 17 -18;

Republic, 108

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Morrison), 106 -7, 177 n. 4

Pleasure, 112 , 159 -60n. 33 ;

and the differend, 34 -35;

human significance in frivolous society, 64 -67;

relationship to pain, 43 -46, 73 , 74 ;

relationship to terror, 4 -5

Plutarch: De Iside et Osiride,110 , 182 n. 50

PMLA: "Pynchon's Postmodern Sublime" (Redfield), 155 n. 11;

"Yeats: Tragic Joy and the Sublime" (Ramazani), 155 n. 11

Pocock, J. G. A., 51

Poétique : "Reading of Longinus" (Hertz), 20

Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, The (Jameson), 150 n. 6

Politics, 165 n. 31, 167 -68n. 43, 176 n. 67;

in Beloved,124 , 130 -31, 146 ;

Burke on aesthetics and, 45 -47, 161 -62n. 7;

and Burke's sexual differences, 50 -55;

of feminine sublime, 10 -12;

relationship to ethics and aesthetics, 40 -41, 45 -47;

of writing, 76 , 179 -80n. 28

Poovey, Mary: "Persuasion and the Promises of Love," 176 n. 64;

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer,174 n. 34

Postmodern Condition, The (Lyotard), 34

Postmodernism: ICA Documents: "Complexity and the Sublime" (Lyotard), 159 -60n. 33

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Jameson), 166 n. 36

Power, 17 , 31 , 170 n. 10;

and imagination, 74 , 158 n. 22;

of marketplace in society, 64 -67;

as masculine, 48 -49;

as possession, 18 -19, 130 ;

struggle for mastery between powers, 2 -3;

transfer of, 20 -23, 155 n. 10, 161 -62n. 7;

women's oppression and, 6 , 8

Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 8 -9, 20 -21, 23 -24

Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, The (Poovey), 174 n. 34

Psammenitus (king of Egypt), 132 -33

Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins (Fontenrose), 182 n. 50