Translations of the sublime
Subtitle: the early modern reception and dissemination of Longinus' Peri hupsous in rhetoric, the visual arts, architecture and the theatre
By: edited by Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Maarten Delbeke and Jürgen Pieters
Series: Intersections -- 24
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789004229556; 9789004234338
Subjects: Appreciation; Modern Arts; Themes, motives; Sublime, The, in art
Description: The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English, French, and German.