Le romantisme et le paradigme du sublime Modernité, anti-modernité, postmodernité

This essay investigates the paradoxical association between Romanticism and the sublime from the 1980’s: it stands for a modernity which has broken up with classical poetics based on the artefact and not on the poetic process, on production rather than on reception, on an elitist taste rather than on universal judgement, but it is also the mark of a revolution heading back to an origin, of a regeneration negating the linear progress of modernity.