Article published in:
Revue Romane
Vol. 54:2 (2019) ► pp. 300–314
Articles Littéraires

The religious-sublime in music, literature and architecture

A dialogue

| University of Southern Denmark
The present article is an attempt to propose the semiotic aspect that produces the ”religious- sublime”. Most of the semiotic characteristics that we use to represent (and produce) the signifiers of the religious-sublime, nevertheless, share their mechanisms with other modalities of ”sublimeness”. The sublime will be regarded as the representation (in the sense of staging) of a perception. I will propose how the subjective perception – in this case of the divinity – is (re)constructed by the subject in a piece of Spanish Gothic literature, in sacred music and in architecture – the room which houses the subjective perception of divinity.
Keywords: sublimity, distance, diegesis, heights, vanishing, intertextuality, limits, the unknown
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • A story about seeking the sublime
  • Metadiegesis in the process of sublimation
  • The semi-echo: The effect of the ascending “emptiness” and of exaltation
  • The architectural sublime and the sound in it
  • An odoriferous and visual helper in the construction of the sublime
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 21 February 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.16010.cif
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