John Baillie's 'Essay on the Sublime' gathers together the suggestions of earlier writers and attempts to bring the concept of the sublime to a level of theoretical definition that is scarcely found in earlier writings. Its relevance must be measured by the fact that it represents a crucial moment in the genesis of modern thought on the sublime. It is also necessary to take into account the fact that Baillie's properly aesthetic approach consciously and methodologically avoids the drift of rhetorical-literary analysis that has informed all previous investigations.
A. Gatti (2015). Baillie e il sublime. MILANO-UDINE : Mimesis.
Baillie e il sublime
A. Gatti
2015
Abstract
John Baillie's 'Essay on the Sublime' gathers together the suggestions of earlier writers and attempts to bring the concept of the sublime to a level of theoretical definition that is scarcely found in earlier writings. Its relevance must be measured by the fact that it represents a crucial moment in the genesis of modern thought on the sublime. It is also necessary to take into account the fact that Baillie's properly aesthetic approach consciously and methodologically avoids the drift of rhetorical-literary analysis that has informed all previous investigations.File in questo prodotto:
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