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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 45
Seite viii
... taste (1785) Part III: Irish Perspective 25. Edmund Burke, from Aphilosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (1759) 26. John Lawson, from Lectures concerning oratory (1758) 27. JamesUsher,fromClio:or ...
... taste (1785) Part III: Irish Perspective 25. Edmund Burke, from Aphilosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (1759) 26. John Lawson, from Lectures concerning oratory (1758) 27. JamesUsher,fromClio:or ...
Seite xiv
... taste and the affective realm of aesthetic experience respectively are not viable concepts for a writer like Adam Smith, whose Theory of Moral Sentiments represents the most sophisticated and elegant solution to the problem of finding ...
... taste and the affective realm of aesthetic experience respectively are not viable concepts for a writer like Adam Smith, whose Theory of Moral Sentiments represents the most sophisticated and elegant solution to the problem of finding ...
Seite xv
... taste can be understood as transcendent, as going beyond the specific taste of particular individuals, once it becomes the property of the imagined spectator. In noting this, however, we are not making a Kantian argument about the ...
... taste can be understood as transcendent, as going beyond the specific taste of particular individuals, once it becomes the property of the imagined spectator. In noting this, however, we are not making a Kantian argument about the ...
Seite xix
... telling example of this is Basil Barrett, Pretension to a final analysis of the nature and origin of sublimity, style, genius and taste (London, 1812) material taken for investigation is a substanceless substance anything and. Introduction.
... telling example of this is Basil Barrett, Pretension to a final analysis of the nature and origin of sublimity, style, genius and taste (London, 1812) material taken for investigation is a substanceless substance anything and. Introduction.
Seite xxxiii
... taste, may easily discover the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds, that it transports not his soul, nor exalts his thoughts; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than what the mere sounds ...
... taste, may easily discover the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds, that it transports not his soul, nor exalts his thoughts; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than what the mere sounds ...
Inhalt
ix | |
xi | |
xxvii | |
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 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory Andrew Ashfield,Peter de Bolla Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1996 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Smith admiration aesthetic agreeable appears arises astonishment attention awful beauty called cause character circumstances common conception consider contemplation degree delight Demosthenes discourse distinct divine Edmund Burke eighteenth-century elegance elevation emotion enthusiasm epic poetry exalted example excellence excite expression fancy feel figures French revolution genius give grand grandeur heart heavens Hence Homer horror human ideas Iliad images imagination imitation infinite kind language lofty Longinian Longinus magnificent mankind manner means ment Milton mind moral mountains nature never noble objects observe original Ossian pain painting Palemon Paradise Lost passion pathetic perfection picturesque pleasing pleasure poet poetry present principles produce qualities raise reading activity reason render Richard Payne Knight scenes Scottish enlighten sensation sense sensible sentiments soul species spirit sublime affect surprise taste terrible terror Theocles things thought tion tradition tropes tropological vast Virgil virtue wonder words writing