Title 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, Stijn Bussels, Maarten Delbeke and Jürgen Pieters

Published Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Series Intersections ; 24 Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; 24. Contents Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- I. The Early Modern Reception and Dissemination of Peri Hupsous -- The Meaning of Apostrophè in Longinus's On the Sublime (16, 2) -- Longinus and Poetic Imagination in Late Renaissance Literary Theory -- The Sublime and the Bible: Longinus, Protestant Dogmatics, and the "Sublime Style" -- A l'aune du sublime : autour du " Parallèle de Corneille et Racine " (1688) de La Bruyère -- II. Translations of the Sublime into the Visual Arts, Architecture and the Theatre Orrore, terrore, timore. Vasari und das ErhabeneElevated Twins and the Vicious Sublime. Gianlorenzo Bernini and Louis XIV -- "One never sees monsters without experiencing emotion" Le merveilleux and the Sublime in Theories on French Performing Arts (1650-1750) -- The Demosthenes of Painting. Salvator Rosa and the 17th century Sublime -- The Longinian Sublime, Effect and Affect in 'Baroque' British Visual Culture -- Figuring the Sublime in English Church Architecture 1640-1730 -- Paradoxical Encounters. Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experiences and the Sublime -- Index Nominum Summary The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Contributions in English, French, and German Print version record Subject Longinus, active 1st century. On the sublime. Longinus, active 1st century -- Appreciation SUBJECT Longinus, active 1st century fast On the sublime (Longinus) fast Subject Sublime, The, in art. Arts, Modern -- Themes, motives LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. Art appreciation Arts, Modern -- Themes, motives Sublime, The, in art Form Electronic book Author Eck, Caroline van, editor Bussels, Stijn, editor Delbeke, Maarten, editor Pieters, Jürgen, editor LC no. 2012023676 ISBN 9004234330 9789004234338 9781283634823 1283634821

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