The sublime reader. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert R. Clewis.
• Editors: Clewis, Robert R, 1977-
• Contents: List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments: SourcesAcknowledgmentsNote on the TextsEditor's IntroductionPart I. Ancient1.Longinus, from On Sublimity2.Bharata-Muni, from Na?yasastraPart II. Postclassical3.Guo Xi, from The Interest of Lofty Forests and Springs4.Zeami Motokiyo, 'Notes on the Nine Levels'5.Francesco Petrarca, 'The Ascent of Mont Ventoux'Part III. Modern6.Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, from 'Preface to his Translation of Longinus On the Sublime'7.John Dennis, from The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry8.Giambattista Vico, 'On the Heroic Mind'9.Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful10.Moses Mendelssohn, from 'On the Sublime and Naive in the Fine Sciences'11.Elizabeth Carter, from Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Montagu12.Immanuel Kant, from Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime13.Anna Aiken (Anna Letitia Barbauld), 'On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror'14.Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Men15.Immanuel Kant, from Critique of the Power of Judgment and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View16.Friedrich Schiller, 'Of the Sublime (Toward the Further Development of Some Kantian Ideas)'17.Anna Seward, Letter to Rev. Dr. Gregory18.Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance19.Helen Maria Williams, from A Tour in SwitzerlandPart IV. Late Modern20.William Wordsworth, 'The Sublime and the Beautiful'21.Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus22.Arthur Schopenhauer, from The World as Will and Representation23.Georg W. F. Hegel, 'Symbolism of the Sublime'24.Richard Wagner, from 'Beethoven'25.Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy, Joyful Wisdom, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra26.Rudolf Otto, from The Idea of the HolyPart V. Contemporary27.Barnett Newman, 'The Sublime is Now'28.Julia Kristeva, from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection29.Fredric Jameson, from 'Postmodernism, or the Logic of Late Capitalism'30.Jean-François Lyotard, 'The Sublime and the Avant-Garde'31.Meg Armstrong, from ''The Effects of Blackness': Gender, Race, and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant'32.Cynthia A. Freeland, 'The Sublime in Cinema'33.Arthur Danto, 'Beauty and Sublimity'34.Vladimir J. Konecni, 'The Aesthetic Trinity: Awe, Being Moved, Thrills'35.Jane Forsey, 'Is a Theory of the Sublime Possible?'36.Sandra Shapshay, 'Commentary on Jane Forsey's 'Is a Theory of the Sublime Possible?''37.Robert R. Clewis, 'Towards A Theory of the Sublime and Aesthetic Awe'38.Emily Brady, 'The Environmental Sublime'Chapter SummariesBibliographyIndexIllustrations1.Guo Xi, Early Spring, 10722.Barnett Newman, Onement I, 19483.Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-19514.Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1817.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (456 pages)
• Subjects: 111.85; Sublime, The; Sublime, The -- Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350030176; 1350030171
• Related ISBNs: 9781350030152
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