Sublime Worlds
Early Modern French Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23129772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J W Ambrose, James Ambrose, Emma Gilby (0009-0002-8575-9069) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 851 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Modern Language Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7937 • E-ISSN: 2222-4319 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20467952 |
| OpenAlex | W2027977834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Some of the language we come across, in reading other peoples' works or listening to others speak, moves us profoundly. It requires a response from us; it occupies and involves us. Writers, always readers and listeners as well, are fascinated by this phenomenon, which became the subject of the classical treatise On the Sublime , traditionally attributed to Longinus. Emma Gilby looks at this compelling and complex text in relation to the work of three major seventeenth-century authors: Pierre Corneille, Blaise Pascal and Nicolas Boileau. She offers, in each case, intimate critical readings which spin out into broad interrogations about knowledge and experience in early modern French literature.
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Literature · Sublime · French Literature and Criticism · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies
The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant
The Cambridge history of French literature
The Cambridge History of French Thought
The Places of Early Modern Criticism
Aesthetics
The eighteenth-century conte
The Continent of History
Colonialism and Slavery
Demonology
Diderot
French poetry, 1793–1863
Eighteenth-century margins
Ramus
Victor Cousin and Eclecticism
An English translation of Longinus in the Lansdowne collection at the British Library
Heroism or Tragedy
Lucan and the Sublime
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |