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Shakespeare's sublime pathos : person, audience, language / Jonathan P.A. Sell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sell, Jonathan P. A., author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
- Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Sublime, The, in literature.
- Pathos in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. This volume explores how Shakespeare generates experiences of sublime pathos, for which audiences have been prepared by the sublime ethos described in Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos. It examines Shakespeare's model of mutualistic character, in which "entangled" language brokers a psychic communion between fictive persons and real-life audiences and readers. In the process, "sublime critical" platitudes regarding Shakespeare's liberating ambiguity and invention of the human are challenged, while the sympathetic imagination is reinstated as the linchpin of the playwright's sublime effects. As the argument develops, the Shakespearean sublime emerges as an emotional state of vulnerable exhilaration leading to an ethically uplifting openness towards others and an epistemologically bracing awareness of human unknowability. Taken together, Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos and Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos show how Shakespearean drama integrates matter and spirit on hierarchical planes of cognition and argue that, ultimately, his is an immanent sublimity of the here-and-now enfolding a transcendence which may be imagined, simulated or evoked, but never achieved"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The conundrum of character, the sublime mistook
- Hollow men
- Sympathetic imagination
- Language of passion
- The mutualist's dividend.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-00-318008-6
- 1-000-40782-9
- 1-003-18008-6
- 1-000-40787-X
- 9781003180081
- OCLC:
- 1257078364
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