Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• SHEERAN, AMY

Titel

Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought

Ist Teil von

• MLN, 2011, Vol.126 (5), p.1130-1133

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

• ProQuest

Quelle

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...] in the last chapter, Johnson offers "a critique of hyperbolic reason" (487), analyzing Wittgenstein and Cavell's rejections of the Kantian sublime. [...] the closing paragraphs of the book, which draw rich, complex connections between many of the works discussed, feel hasty and inconclusive; an afterword might have been a more appropriate setting to pursue some of those connections more thoroughly.