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The Sublime

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Sublime

By Philip Shaw

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About the book

Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at:Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chaptersThe legacy of the earliest classical theories, through those of the long eighteenth century to modernist, postmodernist and ava...Show more

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9781138859647

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2017

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