LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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1st Century BC
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the Sublime, Greek Peri hypsous, treatise on literary criticism by Longinus, dating to about the 1st century ce. The earliest surviving manuscript, from the 10th century, was first printed in 1554.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is written in an epistolary form and the final part, possibly dealing with public speaking, has been lost. The treatise is dedicated to Posthumius Terentianus, a cultured Roman and public figure, though little else is known of him.
Detailed explanation-3: -The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757. He defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling.
Detailed explanation-4: -Longinus defines sublimity (Greek hypsos) in literature as “the echo of greatness of spirit, ” that is, the moral and imaginative power of the writer that pervades a work. Thus, for the first time greatness in literature is ascribed to qualities innate in the writer rather than in the art.
Detailed explanation-5: -The literary concept of the sublime emerged in the seventeenth century from its use in alchemy, and acquired importance in the eighteenth century. Its development during this period is shown in the work of James Beattie’s Dissertations Moral and Critical, which explored the origin of the term.