The Sublime Reader -

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Résumé :
This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing voices and traditions that have often been excluded. As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and allied disciplines, from art criticism and literary theory, to gender and cultural studies and environmental philosophy.

The anthology includes brief introductions to each selection, reading or discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and index - making it an ideal text for building a course around or for further study. The book's apparatus provides valuable context for exploring the history and contemporary views of the sublime....

Biographie:

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments: Sources
Acknowledgments
Note on the Texts

Editor's Introduction
Part I. Ancient
1.Longinus, from On Sublimity
2.Bharata-Muni, from Na?yasastra

Part II. Postclassical
3.Guo Xi, from The Interest of Lofty Forests and Springs
4.Zeami Motokiyo, Notes on the Nine Levels
5.Francesco Petrarca, The Ascent of Mont Ventoux

Part III. Modern
6.Nicolas Boileau Despr?aux, from Preface to his Translation of Longinus On the Sublime
7.John Dennis, from The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
8.Giambattista Vico, On the Heroic Mind
9.Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
10.Moses Mendelssohn, from On the Sublime and Naive in the Fine Sciences
11.Elizabeth Carter, from Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Montagu
12.Immanuel Kant, from Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
13.Anna Aiken (Anna Letitia Barbauld), On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror
14.Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Men
15.Immanuel Kant, from Critique of the Power of Judgment and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
16.Friedrich Schiller, Of the Sublime (Toward the Further Development of Some Kantian Ideas)
17.Anna Seward, Letter to Rev. Dr. Gregory
18.Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance
19.Helen Maria Williams, from A Tour in Switzerland

Part IV. Late Modern
20.William Wordsworth, The Sublime and the Beautiful
21.Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein...

Sommaire:
This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing voices and traditions that have often been excluded. As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and allied disciplines, from art criticism and literary theory, to gender and cultural studies and environmental philosophy.

The anthology includes brief introductions to each selection, reading or discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and index - making it an ideal text for building a course around or for further study. The book's apparatus provides valuable context for exploring the history and contemporary views of the sublime....