Meaning of stuplime | Babel Free

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Resulting in the simultaneous experience of astonishment and boredom.

Examples

“One way of calling attention to the affinity between exhaustion and the astonishment particular to the sublime, invoking the latter while detaching it from its previous romantic affiliations, is to refer⟳ to the aesthetic experience⟳ I am talking about—one in which astonishment is paradoxically united with boredom as the stuplime.”

“To return⟳ to my encounters with Reznikoff’s work⟳, I see⟳ a strong echo of the stuplime. What I experience⟳ isn’t boredom, but it’s certainly something like⟳ it. I am shocked and fatigued by the writing, and this drives me into a space where as a reader, I simply shut⟳ down.”

“The stuplime always works in this way, playing on the viewer's patience, sneaking in arguments about larger systems through its strategic deployment of confusion and boredom.”

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