Sublime

<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>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> </ul> </ul><ul> <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> <li>Critical Introductions to major theorists of the sublime such as Longinus Burke Kant Schopenhauer Nietzsche Derrida Lyotard Lacan and Žižek</li> <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 day</li> <p> </p> <li>How the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-<i>noir</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>The influence of the sublime on recent debates in the fields of politics theology and psychoanalysis.</li> </ul><p>Offering historical overviews and explanations this remarkably clear study is essential reading for students of literature critical and cultural theory.</p>