[lit-ideas] Peri Hypsous
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:47:05 EDT
Peri Hypsous/Peri Bathos
Sorry if this exceeds the limit, but I HAVE JUST READ Henninge, and if I
don't reply NOW, how will I remember that I have to respond? By tomorrow I
may be in Tokyo!
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I think it was an excellent commendation, and I should research more about
it. So if other listmembers feel like extending on the sublime, doo.
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I'll find out what Longinus meant. He was "Hellenistic" right? -- cfr.
Plato, "On Beauty". Is it CONCEIVABLE to have a "Classical" by which I mean
"High Classical" (i.e. Socrates's reign, Pericles) treatise, 'peri hypsous'.
Will find out and report back.
-- Yes, there's Pope (excellent reference) and the Scots philosopher
Burke, too, as R. Paul will agree -- and it's interesting to also mention (if
I
may) the use of 'the sublime' usually as 'noun'. I agree that Guyter (who
apparently also translated Kant -- as cited by Chapman, _Grice_) should use
taste-buds as source of subliminity,
Oddly, McGinn said (hyperbolically) that Grice had "one tooth", so it's
tooth-ache with a vengeance for him. There must be MILLIONS sites for the
phrase "Wittgenstein's Toothache" right?
Later,
Cheers,
JL Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
In a message dated 7/15/2009 10:14:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
henninri@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
But what about Longinus and his _Peri hypsous_, _On the Sublime_?
Alexander Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot and the Scriblerians had their fun with that in
their
take-off of it _Peri Bathos_, basically _Of the Ridiculous_ in the 1720s.
JL: Don't you have the Longinus in the Loeb? Or did your copy accidentally
fall into the pool?
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