The Sublime in Antiquity
Author:   James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107037472


Pages:   714
Publication Date:   07 March 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9781107037472


ISBN 10:   1107037476
Pages:   714
Publication Date:   07 March 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: the sublime before and after Longinus; 2. The art and rhetoric of the Longinian sublime; 3. The sublime before Longinus in rhetoric and criticism: Caecilius to Demetrius; 4. The sublime before Longinus in rhetoric and literature: Theophrastus to Homer; 5. The material sublime; 6. The immaterial sublime; Conclusion.

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James I. Porter is Chancellor's Professor of History and Theory of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. An authority on ancient criticism and aesthetics and an important figure in classical reception studies, he is the author of The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience (2010), Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future, and The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on The Birth of Tragedy (both 2000), as well as the editor of several collections. He is also co-editor of the Classical Presences series. The present book is the second installment in a trilogy, the aim of which is to bring back into focus ancient aesthetic thinking and to uncover its forgotten traditions.

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