Inspiration and Technique: Ancient to Modern Views on Beauty and Art (Paperback)

Contents: Michele Stanco: Introduction. Aesthetic Forms: Ancient and Modern ? Michael J. Edwards: Rhetoric and Technique in the Attic Orators and Aristotle’s techne rhetorike ? Michele Stanco: ‘Madness’ and ‘Technique’. Psychological Theories of Beauty and Textual Theories of Art ? Glyn P. Norton: Improvisation and Inspiration in Quintilian. The Extemporalizing of Technique in the Institutio Oratoria ? Alessandra Petrina: Creative ymagynacioun and Canon Constraints in the Fifteenth Century. James I and Charles d’Orleans ? Patricia Kennan: The Ideal versus the Text in Sidney’s Defence of Poesy ? John Roe: Refined Eros in Sidney’s Astrophil & Stella and Chapman’s Ovids Banquet of Sence ? Angela Locatelli: Larger than Science? Bacon’s Idea of Poetry in The Advancement of Learning ? C. Maria Laudando: The Double Nature of Art in Eighteenth-century England. Pope, Addison, Hogarth ? Edward Nye: Rationalist and Sensationist Aesthetics in Eighteenth-century France ? Claudia Corti: Visionary Aesthetics and Opiate Texts in British Romanticism ? Adrian Grafe: Hopkins’s ‘one rapture’ and its Inscription in Time and Eternity ? Peter Robinson: Wittgenstein’s Aesthetics and Revision ? Peter Conradi: Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince. Dancing the Dance of Creation ? Brian G. Caraher: Genre Theory. A Sociolinguistic Approach to the Aesthetics of Literary Form ? Ivan Gaskell: After Art, Beyond Beauty.