Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 238 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781003180081
,
9781000407822
,
9781000407877
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in Shakespeare
Content:
The conundrum of character -- Hollow men -- Sympathetic imagination -- Language of passion -- The mutualist's dividend.
Content:
"Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. This volume explores how Shakespeare generates experiences of sublime pathos, for which audiences have been prepared by the sublime ethos described in Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos. It examines Shakespeare's model of mutualistic character, in which "entangled" language brokers a psychic communion between fictive persons and real-life audiences and readers. In the process, "sublime critical" platitudes regarding Shakespeare's liberating ambiguity and invention of the human are challenged, while the sympathetic imagination is reinstated as the linchpin of the playwright's sublime effects. As the argument develops, the Shakespearean sublime emerges as an emotional state of vulnerable exhilaration leading to an ethically uplifting openness towards others and an epistemologically bracing awareness of human unknowability. Taken together, Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos and Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos show how Shakespearean drama integrates matter and spirit on hierarchical planes of cognition and argue that, ultimately, his is an immanent sublimity of the here-and-now enfolding a transcendence which may be imagined, simulated or evoked, but never achieved"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032017945
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032017952
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sell, Jonathan P. A. Shakespeare's sublime pathos New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 ISBN 9781032017945
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032017952
Former:
Fortsetzung von Sell, Jonathan P. A. Shakespeare's sublime ethos
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.4324/9781003180081
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