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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kelly LehtonenPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781487545369ISBN 10: 1487545363 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 19 December 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsHeroic Awe offers a searching, meticulously researched, and brilliantly argued account of the early modern history of the sublime and its fundamental but underappreciated relation to the Italian, French, and English epic. Combining deep cultural and linguistic awareness with acute theoretical insights, Lehtonen reveals how the sublime both informs and is shaped by the poetic and critical discourses of the era. Without doubt, one of the most urgent and original studies of the sublime of the past twenty years. - Robert Doran, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Rochester Heroic Awe richly traces the influence of the Longinian sublime on Renaissance epic literature. Kelly Lehtonen shows how the epic heroes of Tasso, Du Bartas, Spenser, and Milton experience forms of ekplexis - awe, terror, rapture - in their encounters with the divine. Her probing analyses of these Christian heroes, as they stand before an almighty God, compel us to rethink the early reception of Longinus and the structures of feeling in Renaissance epic poetry. - Anthony Welch, Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee With erudition and insight, Heroic Awe makes the case for a Longinian sublime in Renaissance epic poetry. The sublime, in this sense, involves an overwhelming spiritual experience: an encounter with the divine that leaves the epic hero awe-struck or terrified. Lehtonen traces such encounters in the poems of Du Bartas, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton, and in the literary theory of the period. The result is a worthy contribution to Renaissance epic scholarship. - Tobias Gregory, Associate Professor of English, Catholic University of America """Heroic Awe offers a searching, meticulously researched, and brilliantly argued account of the early modern history of the sublime and its fundamental but underappreciated relation to the Italian, French, and English epic. Combining deep cultural and linguistic awareness with acute theoretical insights, Lehtonen reveals how the sublime both informs and is shaped by the poetic and critical discourses of the era. Without doubt, one of the most urgent and original studies of the sublime of the past twenty years.""--Robert Doran, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Rochester ""With erudition and insight, Heroic Awe makes the case for a Longinian sublime in Renaissance epic poetry. The sublime, in this sense, involves an overwhelming spiritual experience: an encounter with the divine that leaves the epic hero awe-struck or terrified. Lehtonen traces such encounters in the poems of Du Bartas, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton, and in the literary theory of the period. The result is a worthy contribution to Renaissance epic scholarship.""--Tobias Gregory, Associate Professor of English, Catholic University of America ""Heroic Awe richly traces the influence of the Longinian sublime on Renaissance epic literature. Kelly Lehtonen shows how the epic heroes of Tasso, Du Bartas, Spenser, and Milton experience forms of ekplexis - awe, terror, rapture - in their encounters with the divine. Her probing analyses of these Christian heroes, as they stand before an almighty God, compel us to rethink the early reception of Longinus and the structures of feeling in Renaissance epic poetry.""--Anthony Welch, Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee" Author InformationKelly Lehtonen is an assistant professor of English at The King's College in New York City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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