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Longinus introduced sublimity as a type of eminence or excellence of discourse, especially in literature and oratory. In ancient times, poetry was believed to be the finest product of art and this can be traced in the writings of great... more
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      SublimeContemporary SublimeTheory of Sublime Longinus' theory of the Sublime
The sublime (das Erhabene) is known as a concept of aesthetics and literary criticism. In his Greek treatise On the Sublime, Longinus (or Pseudo-Longinus) examines surprising, overwhelming and elevating moments in literature. Such moments... more
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      The SublimeDas ErhabeneTheory of SublimePseudo-Longinus
RSA 2024 Chicago Session
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      Cosimo I de' MediciAgnolo BronzinoAccademia Fiorentina Longinus' theory of the Sublime
Association for Art History, 50th Annual Conference, University of Bristol, 2024
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      Agnolo BronzinoRenaissane Studies Longinus' theory of the Sublime
This conference focuses on the reception of Longinus’s treatise Peri Hypsous (1st century AD.). Taking into consideration that it is not often we possess direct evidence concerning the Longinian sublime as a productive theory in the early... more
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      Angelo PolizianoAdalbert StifterPeter Paul RubensJohann Joachim Winckelmann
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      18th Century PhilosophyThe Sublime18th CenturyMoses Mendelssohn
One of the unsolved mysteries surrounding the treatise On the Sublime concerns the relationship between emotion (πάθος) and the sublime (ὕψος).1 It is obvious that emotions play a central role in On the Sublime. The author, whom I will... more
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      EmotionNarratologyThe SublimePseudo-Longinus
Neben der eingangs bezeichneten Verengung des Rezeptionshorizonts durch die Tradition der antirhetorischen französischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung, in der die Räson des Klassizismus mit der »raison« philosophischer Rationalität... more
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      AestheticsGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizBlaise PascalSublime
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      Friedrich HölderlinEugenio MontaleEarly German RomanticismMario Luzi
"Zelles komparatistischer Studie (Siegen, Habil.-Schr. 1995) liegt die These zugrunde, daß zur Bedingung der Ästhetik die Reflexion auf das ›Andere‹ zum Schönen gehört. Der systematische Ansatz wird anhand verschiedener historischer... more
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      AestheticsRomanticismEdmund BurkeFriedrich Nietzsche
Traducere şi note de C. Balmuş
Notiţă introductivă de D. M. Pippidi
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      Ancient Greek PhilosophyClassical Greek PhilosophyAncient Greek and Roman PhilosophyLonginus
An influential text in western literary criticism, On the Sublime is a 1st or 3 rd century AD manuscript discovered in 1554, and was translated into French in 1674. It gained wide attention in literary discourse only after the Romantic... more
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      English LiteratureLiterary CriticismLiterary TheoryClassical Literature
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      AristotleAristotle's Rhetoric and PoeticsLonginusEssence of Good Writing
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      AestheticsFriedrich SchillerSublimeAesthetics of Taste
A new edition of the treatise On the Sublime, with introduction, Greek text, facing Italian translation (by Laura Lulli), and extensive commentary (translated into Italian by Laura Lulli), together with an essay on the modern reception of... more
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      The SublimeAncient Literary CriticismAncient Greek LiteratureTheory of Sublime
:In his article, Vrasidas Karalis explores the notion of sublime or sublimity as the field of colliding signifiers and of experiential frameworks in conflict. Instead of treating the traditional notion as a structural element of style of... more
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      The SublimeSublimeOn The SublimeSublime and Transendence
Fronton évoque le sublime à propos de l’éloquence impériale principalement, car à ses yeux l’instrument de pouvoir par excellence est l’éloquence ; l’empereur, incarnant le pouvoir suprême, doit être doté d’une parole qui le place... more
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      RhetoricThe SublimeFronto Longinus' theory of the Sublime
"Más allá del paisaje con ermitaños, si las Soledades merecen llamarse “sublimes” es porque el lenguaje está en todo momento al borde del “completo colapso” (pantelei diaptōsei). La verdadera ascesis del poema es verbal; la lengua se... more
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      Baroque Art and LiteratureLuis de GóngoraEcphrasispoesía española del siglo XVII
The Preface and Introduction to my anthology, The Sublime Reader (2019).
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      Feminist TheoryRomanticismArt TheoryPhilosophy of Art
Σ τη μελέτη Ο Κάλβος στα ίχνη του «Λογγίνου». Ενας άνθρωπος των γραμμάτων στην Ευρώπη του 19ου αιώνα (Αθήνα: Αντίποδες 2019), η Αγγέλα Γιώτη εξετάζει το έργο του Ανδρέα Κάλβου με ορίζοντα τις νεότερες τύχες του Περί ύψους του Λογγίνου,... more
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      LonginusΑνδρέας ΚάλβοςAndreas Kalvos Longinus' theory of the Sublime
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Notes
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      Greek LiteratureLiterary CriticismLiterary TheorySublime
'On Nikos Kazantzakis' statement that ''We do not fight our dark passions with a sober, "bloodless, neutral virtue which rises above passion, but with other, more violent passion"
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      Modern Greek literatureModern Greek StudiesModern Greek and Comparative LiteratureNikos Kazantzakis