Abstract
Since ancient times well into our postmodern era, aesthetic treatments have regarded the experience of mediated terror a source of the sublime. However, this traditional association of the two notions suffered a severe cataclasm during the violent tragedies of the twentieth century, and it became questionable whether such terror as that of a totalitarian state could trigger sublime at all. The aim of this essay is to outline how the traditional coupling of terror and the sublime is transformed in contemporary literary evaluations of socialist state terror based on two contemporary British novels about East-Central Europe : Paul Bailey: Kitty and Virgil, and Rose Tremain: The Road Home.
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