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- Title
Anmerkungen zur Rezeption von Longins 'Erhabenem' im Cinquecento.
- Authors
Huss, Bernhard
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to attempt to explain why (Ps.-)Longinus' famous essay On the Sublime barely received any recognition in the Renaissance although the original text was published by very well-known editors at the time: by Francesco Robortello (1554) and Paulus Manutius (1555). The explanation is to be found in the instability multi-layered poetics of style was confronted with in the 16th century. Its attempts to lay down the individual genres of poetics by defining normative levels of style had become increasingly difficult because the integration of Hellenistic poetics into the poetological discourse of the Renaissance had led to a considerable proliferation of the theoretical options available and to a loss of authority for the traditional scheme of the Three Styles. In view of this situation, Longinus' radical approach to stylistic theory posed a danger to multi-level poetics of style as a whole. Thus attempts were made either to defuse Longinus by reading rhetorical meaning into him or to press him relatively forcefully into pre-existing systematised moulds of poetics based on style – or he was simply ignored, the option which the majority of theoreticians apparently chose.
- Subjects
RENAISSANCE; ROBORTELLO, Francesco; MANUTIUS, Paulus; LITERATURE &; society; RHETORICAL analysis; SEVENTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Romanistisches Jahrbuch, 2011, Vol 62, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
0080-3898
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/roma.62.6