Jonathan P. A. Sell

Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos

Matter, Stage, Form

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Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeareâ s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answer to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781032018157
• ISBN-10: 1032018151
• Artikelnr.: 68984295

Autorenporträt

Jonathan P. A. Sell is Professor of English Literature at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. He holds degrees from the universities of Oxford, London and Alcalá, and his main fields of research are early modern and contemporary literature. He has written numerous articles and several books, including Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613 (2006), Allusion, Identity and Community (2012) and Conocer a Shakespeare [Getting to Know Shakespeare] (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Aside
"With reason to admire"
Plan of the work
Chapter 1. On the Sublime
Quod erat demonstrandum
Replotting the sublime
The early modern sublime
Plato, Longinus, and the Christian sublime
Some notes on the sublime
Chapter 2. "Brightest heaven of invention": Sublime Topics
Ethos and the sublime gestalt
Sublime cues and "strong expressions"
Sublime phenomena
"Outstretched heroes"
Counterfeit metaphysics
Chapter 3. "The fairy way of writing": Sublime Matter
"The hateful incredible"
The sublime and the wonderful
The tyranny of knowledge
Chapter 4. "'Twixt heaven and earth": Sublime Scenography
The sublime stage
Perspective/Scenography
The dangerous edge
The art of intermediacy
Chapter 5. Divine Mechanisms: Sublime Form and Shape
"Irregularities of genius"
Poems unlimited
Divinity bursts forth
No clocks in Rome [Entre'acte]
"Awful parenthesis"
"The very body of the time"
"Fissures of sublimity"
Chapter 6. Bastard Art, Innocent Experience
Wood clearing
The art of the blemish
Atomism, atheism, aesthetics
Sublimity and beauty
"Damned custom", primal nescience
"Fairing the foul"
Child father
Conclusions: Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos