The sublime
Series: New critical idiomPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Edition: Second editionDescription: ix, 237 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781138859647
- 113885963X
- 9781138859630
- 1138859648
- BH 301 SHA
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.
Introduction -- Before (and after) Longinus -- Early Modern Sublimity -- Burke: A philosophical enquiry -- Kant: the 'Analytic of the sublime' -- The Romantic sublime -- Beyond Romanticism -- The sublime is now: Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard -- From the sublime to the ridiculous: Lacan and Žižek -- Afterword: Return to beauty.
"Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip Shaw looks at the history of the sublime from the earliest, classical theories, through those of the Romantic era, to post-modern and avant-garde conceptions of sublimity; the major theorists of the sublime such as Burke, Kant, Lyotard, Derrida, Lacan and Žižek, offering critical introductions to each; the significance of the concept through a range of literary readings including the Old and New Testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the Romantic era; and how the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch's neo-noir."--Publisher description.