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.

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Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Description:

xix, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Intersections ; v. 24

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 <> (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 sublilme / 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.
Contributions in English, French, and German.

Summary:

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. Manuscript copies began to circulate in Quattrocento Italy, but very few have been studied. Neither have the ways the sublime was used, in rhetoric and literature, but also in the arts, architecture and the theatre been studied in any systematic way. 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 in the period from the first early modern editions of Longinus until its popularization by Boileau.

ISBN:

9789004229556 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9004229558 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9789004234338

Subject:

Longinus, active 1st century. On the sublime.
Longinus, active 1st century Appreciation.
Longinus, active 1st century
On the sublime (Longinus)
Sublime, The, in art.
Arts, Modern Themes, motives.
Sublime dans l'art.
Art appreciation.

Added entries:

Eck, Caroline van, editor.
Bussels, Stijn, editor.
Delbeke, Maarten, editor.
Pieters, Jürgen, editor.
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 24.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285900
Call No.: BIB 225858
Status: Available

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