Jonathan P. A. Sell

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos (eBook, ePUB)

Person, Audience, Language

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000407877
• Artikelnr.: 62083155

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
Aims and "ethos"
Plan of the work
Chapter 1. The Conundrum of Character, the Sublime Mistook
Judith's face
Ambiguity, realism, sublimity
Ambiguity, freedom, sublimity
Contemptus mundi
Chapter 2. Hollow Men
Liberal humanist character
Protean persons
The moral core
Freedom of choice?
Mutualistic character
Myriad minds
Chapter 3. Sympathetic Imagination
Sympathy and imagination
Psychology and phantasia
Passionate playgoing
Chapter 4. Language of Passion
Cause and effect
"Conceit deceitful"
Thought in progress
Botching words
Entangled, obscure, baroque
Chapter 5. The Mutualist's Dividend
Going mad with Shakespeare
Transcendence?
"The sticking place"
General Conclusions
The Shakespearean sublime
Shakespeare's originality
Enter perfection?
Letting in the daylight
Epilogue
Mechanical dreams
Orsino's luck
Index