250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines.
In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at:
Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chapters... Read more
Introduction 1. Before (and After) Longinus 2. Sublimity in the Eighteenth Century 3. Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry 4. Kant: The Analytic of the Sublime 5. The Romantic Sublime 6. Modernism and the Sublime 7. The Sublime is Now (and Again) Afterword Glossary Bibliography
Biography
Philip Shaw is Professor of Romantic Studies in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester, UK.
