Antarctica and the Traumatic Sublime

• Main Author: Price, J
• Other Authors: Heidkamp,, CP, Paddock, T
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2017
• Subjects: PN Literature (General); PN0080 Criticism; Cherry-Garrard; Antarc*; Antarctica; antartic*
• Online Access: http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5473/; https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5473/3/Joanna%20Price%20Antarctica%20and%20the%20Traumatic%20Sublime.pdf; https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/envispacplac.9.1.0070

Antartica has long been associated with the sublime and it has also been imagined as the site of catastrophe - of both the deaths of early explorers and as a current indicator of global warming. This essay examines how trauma is a structural element of the sublime in accounts and images of Antartica...