The Sublime Reader (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Clewis, Robert R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350030176
• Artikelnr.: 54666372

Autorenporträt

Robert R. Clewis is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at Gwynedd Mercy University, USA and is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. He is author of The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom (2009), a translator of Kant's Lectures on Anthropology (2012), and editor of Reading Kant's Lectures (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Despréaux
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; or
The Modern Prometheus 22.Arthur Schopenhauer
from The World as Will and Representation 23.Georg W. F. Hegel
"Symbolism of the Sublime" 24.Richard Wagner
from "Beethoven" 25.Friedrich Nietzsche
from The Birth of Tragedy
Joyful Wisdom
and Thus Spoke Zarathustra 26.Rudolf Otto
from The Idea of the Holy Part V. Contemporary 27.Barnett Newman
"The Sublime is Now" 28.Julia Kristeva
from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection 29.Fredric Jameson
from "Postmodernism
or the Logic of Late Capitalism" 30.Jean-François Lyotard
"The Sublime and the Avant-Garde" 31.Meg Armstrong
from "'The Effects of Blackness': Gender
Race
and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant" 32.Cynthia A. Freeland
"The Sublime in Cinema" 33.Arthur Danto
"Beauty and Sublimity" 34.Vladimir J. Konecni
"The Aesthetic Trinity: Awe
Being Moved
Thrills" 35.Jane Forsey
"Is a Theory of the Sublime Possible?" 36.Sandra Shapshay
"Commentary on Jane Forsey's 'Is a Theory of the Sublime Possible?'" 37.Robert R. Clewis
"Towards A Theory of the Sublime and Aesthetic Awe" 38.Emily Brady
"The Environmental Sublime" Chapter Summaries Bibliography Index Illustrations 1.Guo Xi
Early Spring
1072 2.Barnett Newman
Onement I
1948 3.Barnett Newman
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
1950-1951 4.Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
c. 1817