{"product_id":"shakespeares-sublime-pathos-9781032017952","title":"Shakespeares Sublime Pathos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the AEDEAN Enrique García Díez Literature Research Award 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language\u003c\/em\u003e 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. More specifically, it explores how Shakespeare generates experiences of sublime pathos, for which audiences have been prepared by the sublime ethos described in the companion volume, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Sublime Ethos\u003c\/i\u003e. To do so, 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 subl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Complex, far-ranging, at times dazzling, there is nothing really comparable to the sweep of this work\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Clark Hulse, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a \u003ci\u003emagnum opus \u003c\/i\u003ein every sense of the word […] A thorough, indeed breath-takingly thorough knowledge of Shakespearean writing is everywhere in evidence\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Complex, far-ranging, at times dazzling, there is nothing really comparable to the sweep of this work\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Clark Hulse, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a \u003ci\u003emagnum opus \u003c\/i\u003ein every sense of the word […] A thorough, indeed breath-takingly thorough knowledge of Shakespearean writing is everywhere in evidence\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Taken together, then, these two works on Shakespeare’s sublime [\u003ci\u003eShakespeare’s Sublime Ethos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare’s Sublime Pathos\u003c\/i\u003e] represent an outstanding contribution not only to Shakespeare studies, but more broadly to intellectual history. In seeking to make intelligible the seemingly inexplicable, Sell has succeeded in revealing the secrets of the apparent magic of the sublime.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Rocío G. Sumillera, Universidad de Granada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The powerful categorizing of the sublime’s coefficients is proof of Sell’s immense merit and designates this monograph as superior research destined to become seminal in Shakespeare studies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Zenón Luis-Martínez\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAims and \"ethos\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlan of the work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. The Conundrum of Character, the Sublime Mistook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudith’s face\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbiguity, realism, sublimity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbiguity, freedom, sublimity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemptus mundi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Hollow Men\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberal humanist character\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProtean persons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe moral core\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreedom of choice?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMutualistic character\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyriad minds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Sympathetic Imagination \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSympathy and imagination\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePsychology and\u003ci\u003e phantasia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassionate playgoing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Language of Passion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCause and effect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Conceit deceitful\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThought in progress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBotching words\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntangled, obscure, baroque\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. The Mutualist’s Dividend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing mad with Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranscendence?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The sticking place\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Shakespearean sublime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare’s originality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter perfection? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetting in the daylight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMechanical dreams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrsino’s luck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018793877847,"sku":"9781032017952","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032017952.jpg?v=1750778170","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeares-sublime-pathos-9781032017952","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}