Jonathan P. A. Sell

Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos (eBook, ePUB)

Matter, Stage, Form

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answer to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000407884
• Artikelnr.: 62083164

Autorenporträt

Jonathan P. A. Sell is Professor of English Literature at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. He holds degrees from the universities of Oxford, London and Alcalá, and his main fields of research are early modern and contemporary literature. He has written numerous articles and several books, including Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613 (2006), Allusion, Identity and Community (2012) and Conocer a Shakespeare [Getting to Know Shakespeare] (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Aside
"With reason to admire"
Plan of the work
Chapter 1. On the Sublime
Quod erat demonstrandum
Replotting the sublime
The early modern sublime
Plato, Longinus, and the Christian sublime
Some notes on the sublime
Chapter 2. "Brightest heaven of invention": Sublime Topics
Ethos and the sublime gestalt
Sublime cues and "strong expressions"
Sublime phenomena
"Outstretched heroes"
Counterfeit metaphysics
Chapter 3. "The fairy way of writing": Sublime Matter
"The hateful incredible"
The sublime and the wonderful
The tyranny of knowledge
Chapter 4. "'Twixt heaven and earth": Sublime Scenography
The sublime stage
Perspective/Scenography
The dangerous edge
The art of intermediacy
Chapter 5. Divine Mechanisms: Sublime Form and Shape
"Irregularities of genius"
Poems unlimited
Divinity bursts forth
No clocks in Rome [Entre'acte]
"Awful parenthesis"
"The very body of the time"
"Fissures of sublimity"
Chapter 6. Bastard Art, Innocent Experience
Wood clearing
The art of the blemish
Atomism, atheism, aesthetics
Sublimity and beauty
"Damned custom", primal nescience
"Fairing the foul"
Child father
Conclusions: Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos

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Introduction

Aside

"With reason to admire"

Plan of the work

Chapter 1. On the Sublime

Quod erat demonstrandum

Replotting the sublime

The early modern sublime

Plato, Longinus, and the Christian sublime

Some notes on the sublime

Chapter 2. "Brightest heaven of invention": Sublime Topics

Ethos and the sublime gestalt



Sublime cues and "strong expressions"

Sublime phenomena

"Outstretched heroes"

Counterfeit metaphysics

Chapter 3. "The fairy way of writing": Sublime Matter

"The hateful incredible"

The sublime and the wonderful

The tyranny of knowledge

Chapter 4. "'Twixt heaven and earth": Sublime Scenography

The sublime stage

Perspective/Scenography

The dangerous edge

The art of intermediacy

Chapter 5. Divine Mechanisms: Sublime Form and Shape

"Irregularities of genius"

Poems unlimited

Divinity bursts forth

No clocks in Rome [Entre'acte]

"Awful parenthesis"

"The very body of the time"

"Fissures of sublimity"

Chapter 6. Bastard Art, Innocent Experience

Wood clearing

The art of the blemish



Atomism, atheism, aesthetics



Sublimity and beauty

"Damned custom", primal nescience



"Fairing the foul"



Child father

Conclusions: Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos

Rezensionen

"Complex, far-ranging, at times dazzling, there is nothing really comparable to the sweep of this work"

- Clark Hulse, University of Illinois at Chicago

"This is a magnum opus in every sense of the word [...] A thorough, indeed breath-takingly thorough knowledge of Shakespearean writing is everywhere in evidence"

- Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University