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Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime (Hardcover)
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Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime (Hardcover)
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This is the first new edition in English for more than half a
century of one of the most influential works in the entire history
of aesthetics, the treatise On the Sublime, whose author is unknown
but usually called Longinus. It was On the Sublime which was
chiefly responsible, in the early modern period, for giving the
vocabulary of 'sublimity' the important place which it has held
ever since in critical discourse about literature, visual art,
music, and the experience of nature. This edition contains a
substantial introduction to the contents of the work; a newly
edited Greek text with facing English translation (designed to be
both accurate and readable, and therefore of assistance to
non-specialists); and a comprehensive commentary which deals with
everything from details of language to the work's overarching ideas
and arguments. The book undertakes the fullest and most probing
engagement with On the Sublime yet attempted in any language. It
advances many new interpretations and seeks to make sense of the
treatise both as a remarkable document in its own right and in
relation to the traditions of ancient Greek and Roman literature,
philosophy, and criticism. In addition to supplying all the needs
of scholars and students directly concerned with Graeco-Roman
culture, the introduction and translation make the book also of
value to the many other kinds of readers—philosophers of
aesthetics, art-historians, literary critics, historians of ideas,
and more besides—who are interested in the ancient origins as
well as the modern development of concepts of the sublime.
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