Sublime Worlds
Early Modern French Literature
Emma Gilby
Legenda 7 December 2006 • 170pp ISBN: 978-1-904350-65-1 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-315087-56-6 (Taylor & Francis ebook) Some of the words we read or hear move us: they can seem to anticipate an intimacy with us or to demand a forceful response from us. Writers, always readers and listeners as well, are fascinated by this phenomenon, which became the subject of the classical treatise On the Sublime. Emma Gilby looks at this compelling and complex text in association with the work of Pierre Corneille, Blaise Pascal and Nicolas Boileau. She offers, in each case, close critical readings which spin out into broad questions about the passing of judgement and the gaining of experience. This book gives us new analyses of three major French authors and enables us to rethink questions about sublimity in relation to the early modern period. Emma Gilby is University Lecturer in French and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Reviews:
Bibliography entry: Gilby, Emma, Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature (Legenda, 2006) First footnote reference: 35 Emma Gilby, Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature (Legenda, 2006), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Gilby, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Gilby, Emma. 2006. Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Gilby 2006: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Gilby 2006: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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