JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Modern Transcendent Moment and Postmodern Perpetual Present: A Passage from the Sublime to the Mundane.

  • Published In: Philosophy & Literature, 2024, v. 48, n. 2. P. 278 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Ahmed, Rizwan Saeed; Abbas, Yasir 3 of 3

Abstract

Modernists T. S. Eliot's and W. B. Yeats's treatment of the transcendent moment, and postmodernists Samuel Beckett's and Graham Swift's handling of the perpetual present form two conflicting time worlds. The modernists' transcendent moment signifies a temporary release from the progressive stream of time. As a sudden flash of awareness, it offers a transcendental vision of reality. Contrariwise, the postmodernists' perpetual present is cut off from the past as well as the future, suggesting the infinite time of the middle. It is dissociated from a transcendent reality and has no room for revelatory moments, which establishes its bleak character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Philosophy & Literature. 2024/10, Vol. 48, Issue 2, p278
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0190-0013
  • DOI:10.1353/phl.2024.a950960
  • Accession Number:182990567
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