Sublime Shaw Professor Department of English Philip En University of Leicester UK
Sublime Shaw Professor Department of English Philip En University of Leicester UK Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries…
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Sublime Shaw Professor Department of English Philip En University of Leicester UK
Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines.In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at:Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chaptersThe legacy of the earliest classical theories, through those of the long eighteenth century to modernist, postmodernist and avant-garde conceptions of the sublimeCritical Introductions to major theorists of the sublime such as Longinus, Burke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan and ZizekThe significance of the concept through a range of literary readings, including the Old and New Testaments, Homer,