Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus'). The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, or rather a whole range of ideas, meanings and experiences that are embedded in conceptual and experiential patterns. Once we train our sights on these patterns a radically different prospect on the sublime in antiquity comes to light, one that touches everything from its range of expressions to its dates of emergence, evolution, role in the cultures of antiquity as a whole, and later reception. This book is the first to outline an alternative account of the sublime in Greek and Roman poetry, philosophy, and the sciences, in addition to rhetoric and literary criticism. It offers new readings of Longinus without privileging him, but instead situates him within a much larger context of reflection on the sublime in antiquity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781107037472
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216410953
Product Key Features
Author
James I. Porter
Publication Name
The Sublime in Antiquity
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
714 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
1270g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
James I. Porter
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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