The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic TheoryAndrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla Cambridge University Press, 15.08.1996 This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of the Sublime in the eighteenth century ranged across a number of fields - literary criticism, empirical psychology, political economy, connoisseurship, landscape design and aesthetics, painting and the fine arts, and moral philosophy - and has continued to animate aesthetic and theoretical debates to this day. However, the unavailability of many of the crucial texts of the founding tradition has resulted in a conception of the Sublime often limited to the definitions of its most famous theorist Edmund Burke. Andrew Ashfield and Peter de Bolla's anthology, which includes an introduction and notes to each entry, offers students and scholars ready access to a much deeper and more complex tradition of writings on the Sublime, many of them never before printed in modern editions. |
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Seite xv
... attention to what, according to Smith, needs to be explained. In relation to this argument it is significant that we have singled out the topic of the sublime, since it is in and through this concatenated concept that the complexity of ...
... attention to what, according to Smith, needs to be explained. In relation to this argument it is significant that we have singled out the topic of the sublime, since it is in and through this concatenated concept that the complexity of ...
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... Attention shifts, therefore, from the object to our mental processes which react to or register those qualities delineated by the first approach. Further questions follow from this, such as how is the feeling of the sublime different ...
... Attention shifts, therefore, from the object to our mental processes which react to or register those qualities delineated by the first approach. Further questions follow from this, such as how is the feeling of the sublime different ...
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... attention paid to the text in discussions of the aesthetic; such 'text attentiveness' has significant ramifications within the social field, as modes of textual decorum provide models for social decorum. At the furthest extreme such ...
... attention paid to the text in discussions of the aesthetic; such 'text attentiveness' has significant ramifications within the social field, as modes of textual decorum provide models for social decorum. At the furthest extreme such ...
Seite xxii
... attention in these early English discussions. It also follows from this that a particular sensitivity and attention to the language used in these descriptions becomes advantageous. Such an attentiveness to the words we use in describing ...
... attention in these early English discussions. It also follows from this that a particular sensitivity and attention to the language used in these descriptions becomes advantageous. Such an attentiveness to the words we use in describing ...
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... attention shifts away from the natural world and our mental processes prompted by encounters with it towards the transformational power of the analytic of the sublime. Duff also makes the point that the genius must himself be enraptured ...
... attention shifts away from the natural world and our mental processes prompted by encounters with it towards the transformational power of the analytic of the sublime. Duff also makes the point that the genius must himself be enraptured ...
Inhalt
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Rhapsody to rhetoric | ii |
Irish Perspectives | 127 |
The Aberdonian Enlightenment | 157 |
Edinburgh and Glasgow | 195 |
From the Picturesque to the Political | 263 |
Sources and further reading | 307 |
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