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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 1.020kg ISBN: 9781108994125ISBN 10: 1108994121 Pages: 712 Publication Date: 10 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationJames 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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