The time of the “black sun”

Dariusz Pniewski

doi:10.18290/sn.2019.37-15en

Dariusz Pniewski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/sn.2019.37-15en

Keywords: time, passing, experience, solemnity, melancholy, daguerreotype, history of photography, photography and poetry

Abstract

The text concerns the literary presentation of experiencing time that was characteristic of Romantics. In his latest book, Piotr Śniedziewski mentions time as a problem considered by 19^th-century artists several times. The article presents this issue using the current reflection on the experience (Frank Ankersmit’s “historical sublime experience”) and the findings concerning the impact of photography that has been developing rapidly since 1839, on the way the literary represented world is shaped, as well as the use of photography as a tool of analysing time (“the visual model of time”).

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