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almafu_9959691303202883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-36585-9
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1-316-37185-9
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1-316-37585-4
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1-316-37785-7
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1-316-37685-0
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1-316-37885-3
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1-316-37485-8
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1-316-18201-0
Content:
In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity are united by a common structure - the paradoxical experience of being at once overwhelmed and exalted - and a common concern: the preservation of a notion of transcendence in the face of the secularization of modern culture. Combining intellectual history with literary theory and philosophical analysis, his book provides a new, searching and multilayered account of a concept that continues to stimulate thought about our responses to art, nature and human events.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Key to abbreviations and translations; Introduction; Part I Longinus's theory of sublimity; Chapter 1 Defining the Longinian sublime; 1.1 In search of "Longinus"; 1.2 Longinus and ancient rhetoric: sublimity (hypsos), discourse (logos), and the question of style; 1.3 The experience of sublimity (hypsos): ecstasy (ekstasis), astonishment (ekplêxis), wonder (thaumasion), and the moment (kairos); 1.4 Creating the sublime: genius (nature) versus art (technê); 1.5 True and false sublimity
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Chapter 2 Longinus's five sources of sublimity; 2.1 The first source of sublimity: grandeur of conception (noêsis); 2.2 The second source of sublimity: vehement/inspired emotion (pathos); 2.3 The technical sources of sublimity; Chapter 3 Longinus on sublimity in nature and culture; 3.1 The grandeur of nature; 3.2 Sublimity and cultural decline; Part II Sublimity and modernity; Chapter 4 Boileau: the birth of a concept; 4.1 Boileau and Longinus; 4.2 Boileau and neoclassical poetics: le sublime, le merveilleux, and the je ne sais quoi; 4.3 Sublimity and the honnête homme
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4.4 Sublimity beyond rhetoric: le sublime versus le style sublime; 4.5 The quarrel of fiat lux: Boileau contra Huet; 4.6 Boileau and the heroic ideal: Corneille's Qu'il mourût; Chapter 5 Dennis: terror and religion; 5.1 "Delightful horror"; 5.2 Recasting the Longinian sublime: "Religious Ideas" and "Enthusiastik Passion"; 5.3 Terror and the imagination; 5.4 Sublime anthropogenesis in Dennis and Vico; Chapter 6 Burke: sublime individualism; 6.1 The question of "aesthetics" and the legacy of Longinus; 6.2 Burke's empiricism: pleasure, pain, and delight
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6.3 Burke's aesthetic anthropology of the sublime: sympathy, mimesis, and ambition; 6.4 Burke's sociopolitics of sublimity: the bourgeois hero; 6.5 Terror, power, and religion; Part III The sublimity of the mind: Kant; Chapter 7 The Kantian sublime in 1764: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime; 7.1 The origins of the Observations; 7.2 Kant's Observations and Burke's Enquiry; 7.3 Sublimity, morality, and literary representation; Chapter 8 The sublime in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason; 8.1 The role of the sublime in the second Critique
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8.2 Respect and the moral law: the structural analogy between sublimity and morality; 8.3 Sublime morality or moral sublimity?; Chapter 9 The sublime in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment; 9.1 Reflective judgment and the purposiveness of nature; 9.2 The sublime versus the beautiful: form (Form), feeling (Gefühl), and purposiveness (Zweckmäßigkeit); Chapter 10 Judging nature as a magnitude: the Mathematically Sublime; 10.1 The absolutely and the simply great; 10.2 The appearance of infinity; 10.3 Presenting the maximum; 10.4 The monstrous and the colossal; Chapter 11 Judging nature as a power: the Dynamically Sublime
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-49915-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-10153-0
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316182017
