stuplime

Adjective

stuplime (comparative more stuplime, superlative most stuplime)

1. Resulting in the simultaneous experience of astonishment and boredom.
   • 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...2000, Sianne Ngai, Postmodern Culture, volume 10, number 2, page 272
   • 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.2014, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, “Shock and Blah: Offensive Postures in 'Conceptual' Poetry and the Traumatic Stuplime”, in Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics, number 41, archived from the...