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Sympathy in transformation : dynamics between rhetorics, poetics and ethics

Barton, Roman Alexander, Klaudies, Alexander, Micklich, Thomas

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\"There is little doubt that sympathy plays a pivotal role in aesthetic as well as moral experience, yet also little agreement on how to describe this connection and its long history. This volume investigates the changes in the concept of sympathy as well as its rhetorical, poetical and ethical functions from antiquity to the threshold of Romanticism. The focus is on sympathy's development from a cosmological principle expressing the coherence, correspondence, and unity of all things into a theoretical key concept of intersubjectivity informing moral philosophy, criticism and literature. Thus, Sympathy in Transformation offers important insights into the many ways in which, when sympathy migrates into diverse discourses in Early Modernity, its ancient origins dwindle out of sight, while some of its central elements re-emerge in a surprising manner.\"--Back cover.

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Subject: Sympathy Congresses. / Sympathy in literature Congresses. / English literature History and criticism Congresses.
• ISBN: 9783110515480, 3110515482, 9783110516418, 3110516411, 3110515547, 9783110515541

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BJ1475.S9557 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE