Resumo (PT):
Abstract (EN):
Despite its place in the history of Rhetoric, the treatise On the Sublime
seems to move away from a school of rhetoric as an art of persuasion based on learningoriented
rules and precepts. Although Longinus is part of the rhetorical tradition of his
time, in his view, which has nothing to do with stylistics, the sublime is not definable
through the formal language of rhetoric because it goes beyond the limits of that art.
The treatise presents what we may call an aesthetics of the unlimited and the impossible,
evident in the examples of sublime moments in literary texts given by the author.
Idioma:
Inglês
Tipo (Avaliação Docente):
Científica