Translations of the sublime : the early modern reception and dissemination of Longinus' Peri hupsous in rhetoric, the visual arts, architecture and the theatre / / edited by Caroline van Eck ...[et. al.].

• TeilnehmendeR: Eck, Caroline van.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Contrary to widely held assumptions, the early modern revival of ps-Longinus' On the Sublime did not begin with the adaptation published by Boileau in 1674; it was not connected solely with the Greek editions that began to appear from 1554; nor was its impact limited to rhetoric and literature....

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Caroline van Eck , Stijn Bussels and Maarten Delbeke
• The Meaning of Apostrophè in Longinus’s On the Sublime (16, 2) / Francis Goyet
• Longinus and Poetic Imagination in Late Renaissance Literary Theory / Eugenio Refini
• The Sublime and the Bible: Longinus, Protestant Dogmatics, and the “Sublime Style” / Dietmar Till
• A l’aune du sublime : autour du « Parallèle de Corneille et Racine » (1688) de La Bruyère / Paul J. Smith
• Orrore, terrore, timore. Vasari und das Erhabene / Hana Gründler
• Elevated Twins and the Vicious Sublime. Gianlorenzo Bernini and Louis XIV / Maarten Delbeke
• “One never sees monsters without experiencing emotion”. Le merveilleux and the Sublime in Theories on French Performing Arts (1650–1750) / Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt
• The Demosthenes of Painting. Salvator Rosa and the 17th century Sublime / Helen Langdon
• The Longinian Sublime, Effect and Affect in ‘Baroque’ British Visual Culture / Lydia Hamlett
• Figuring the Sublime in English Church Architecture 1640–1730 / Caroline van Eck
• Paradoxical Encounters. Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experiences and the Sublime / Sigrid de Jong
• Index Nominum.