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A short guide to the theory of the sublime

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Author

  • Kenneth Holmqvist
  • J Pluciennik

Summary, in English

The article concerns selected important issues of poetics and its history. The authors analyze and interpret the history of the notion of the sublime. The article is an introduction to a theoretical part of a book about a possible theory of the literary work of art and communication that results from the experience of the sublime. The introductory article presents to the reader questions which are relevant to the sublime mainly in contemporary theoretical reflection (cf. Lyotard). The survey accounts for the period from the first century AD till twentieth century and deals with the theories of the sublime by Pseudo-Longinos, Nicolas Boileau, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Hegel, Artur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, J.-F. Lyotard and others.

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

718-737

Publication/Series

Style

Volume

36

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article (letter)

Publisher

Univ. of Arkansas

Topic

  • Philosophy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0039-4238