Jonathan P. A. Sell

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos (eBook, ePUB)

Person, Audience, Language

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000407877
• Artikelnr.: 62083155

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
Aims and "ethos"
Plan of the work
Chapter 1. The Conundrum of Character, the Sublime Mistook
Judith's face
Ambiguity, realism, sublimity
Ambiguity, freedom, sublimity
Contemptus mundi
Chapter 2. Hollow Men
Liberal humanist character
Protean persons
The moral core
Freedom of choice?
Mutualistic character
Myriad minds
Chapter 3. Sympathetic Imagination
Sympathy and imagination
Psychology and phantasia
Passionate playgoing
Chapter 4. Language of Passion
Cause and effect
"Conceit deceitful"
Thought in progress
Botching words
Entangled, obscure, baroque
Chapter 5. The Mutualist's Dividend
Going mad with Shakespeare
Transcendence?
"The sticking place"
General Conclusions
The Shakespearean sublime
Shakespeare's originality
Enter perfection?
Letting in the daylight
Epilogue
Mechanical dreams
Orsino's luck
Index

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Introduction

Aims and "ethos"

Plan of the work

Chapter 1. The Conundrum of Character, the Sublime Mistook

Judith's face

Ambiguity, realism, sublimity

Ambiguity, freedom, sublimity

Contemptus mundi

Chapter 2. Hollow Men

Liberal humanist character

Protean persons

The moral core

Freedom of choice?

Mutualistic character

Myriad minds

Chapter 3. Sympathetic Imagination

Sympathy and imagination

Psychology and phantasia

Passionate playgoing

Chapter 4. Language of Passion

Cause and effect

"Conceit deceitful"

Thought in progress

Botching words

Entangled, obscure, baroque

Chapter 5. The Mutualist's Dividend

Going mad with Shakespeare

Transcendence?

"The sticking place"

General Conclusions

The Shakespearean sublime

Shakespeare's originality

Enter perfection?

Letting in the daylight

Epilogue

Mechanical dreams

Orsino's luck

Index

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