The Classical Sublime

The Classical Sublime

Author: Nicholas Cronk

Publisher: Rookwood Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781886365223

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Cronk presents a pioneering study of French neoclassical poetics and poetic theory, with emphasis on Platonic influences.


Hip Sublime

Hip Sublime

Author: Sheila Murnaghan

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780814213551

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Hip Sublime explores the rich interactions between American "Beat" writers of the 1940s-60s and the Greco-Roman tradition.


The Sublime

The Sublime

Author: Timothy M. Costelloe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0521143675

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This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.


The Sublime in Antiquity

The Sublime in Antiquity

Author: James I. Porter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 1107037476

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Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.


The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830

The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830

Author: C. Duffy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1137332182

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The Landscapes of the Sublime examines the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Drawing on a range of scholarship and historical sources, it offers a fresh perspective on the different species of the 'natural sublime' encountered by British and European travellers and explorers.


Classical Literary Criticism

Classical Literary Criticism

Author:

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-02-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0141913401

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The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke feelings such as pleasure or fear, yet he went on to attack this manipulation of emotions and banished poets from his ideal Republic. Aristotle defends the value of art in his Poetics, and his analysis of tragedy has influenced generations of critics from the Renaissance onwards. In the Art of Poetry, Horace promotes a style of poetic craftsmanship rooted in wisdom, ethical insight and decorum, while Longinus' On the Sublime explores the nature of inspiration in poetry and prose.


The Sublime

The Sublime

Author: Philip Shaw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-24

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1134493185

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Often labelled as ‘indescribable’, the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists. Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip Shaw looks at: the legacy of the earliest, classical theories of the sublime through the romantic to the postmodern and avant-garde sublimity the major theorists of the sublime such as Kant, Burke, Lyotard, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek, offering critical introductions to each the significance of the concept through a range of literary readings including the Old and New testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the romantic era how the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir. This remarkably clear study of what is, in essence, a term which evades definition, is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.


Lucan and the Sublime

Lucan and the Sublime

Author: Henry J. M. Day

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-01-24

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1107310970

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This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan's Bellum Civile in terms of the poem's political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke and Kant to Freud, Lyotard and Ankersmit the continuing vitality of Longinus' foundational treatise On the Sublime, Day charts Lucan's complex and instructive exploration of the relationship between sublimity and ethical discourses of freedom and oppression. Through the Bellum Civile's cataclysmic vision of civil war and metapoetic accounts of its own genesis, through its heated linguistic texture and proclaimed effects upon future readers and, most powerfully of all, through its representation of its twin protagonists Caesar and Pompey, Lucan's great epic emerges as a central text in the history of the sublime.