Autonomy,Genius,and the Sublime
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There has long been a link acknowledged between human autonomy and works of artistic genius, sublime works which are recognised as being somehow divine in nature. It is the purpose of this paper to study this link. In the introduction, I shall discuss what is meant by autonomy, and how it is that we may define a special kind of autonomy as it relates to artistic geniuses and their sublime artistic creations. I shall also define what is meant by the sublime, or divine artistry, in literature using both ancient and modern sources. In part two, I shall examine a renaissance view of the ancient link between autonomy and the divine in The Tempest by Shakespeare; itself a sublime artistic work by an autonomous genius. In part three, I shall investigate a nineteenth century view of the link between autonomy and the divine, as seen m Lord Byron's sublime work Man/red. I shall then adapt the definition of the sublime in literature to apply to music, and show how the composer Robert Schumann managed to express Byron's work in a sublime piece of music. In part four, I shall compare the lives of two autonomous musical geniuses of the classical period of music, Mozart and Beethoven, for the purpose of showing the differing degrees of autonomy between the two composers.
- 2003-03-15