The Sublime av Philip Shaw

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<P>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. </P><P></P><P>In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at:</P><UL><LI>Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chapters</LI><UL><P></P></UL></UL><P></P><UL><P></P><P><LI>The legacy of the earliest classical theories, through those of the long eighteenth century to modernist, postmodernist and avant-garde conceptions of the sublime</LI><P></P><P><LI>Critical Introductions to major theorists of the sublime such as Longinus, Burke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan and ¿i¿ek</LI><P></P><P><LI>The significance of the concept through a range of literary readings, including the Old and New Testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the Romantic period to the present da