The sublime in antiquity /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Porter, James I., 1954- (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Θέματα: Κάλλος (Αισθητική).; Ελλάδα > Αρχαιότητες; Ρώμη > Αρχαιότητες

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 exper...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: the sublime before and after Longinus
• 2. The art and rhetoric of the Longinian sublime
• 3. The sublime before Longinus in rhetoric and criticism: Caecilius to Demetrius
• 4. The sublime before Longinus in rhetoric and literature: Theophrastus to Homer; 5. The material sublime
• 6. The immaterial sublime
• Conclusion.