‘A Roar of Wings’: Faith, Scepticism, the Sublime in Medbh McGuckian’s The Book of the Angel

Medbh McGuckian’s main epistemologies in The Book of the Angel (2004) are aesthetic, religious, and poetic. The critical apparatus of this essay consists of the aesthetics of the sublime and beautiful from the eighteenth century (Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant) to the present day (Jean-François Lyot...

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Main Author: Jefferson Holdridge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2021-11-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
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Online Access:http://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/2830/2278