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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786375703321

Autore

Kames Henry Home, Lord, <1696-1782.>

Titolo

Elements of criticism [[electronic resource] /] / Henry Home, Lord Kames ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, : Liberty Fund, c2005

ISBN

1-61487-819-6

Edizione

[6th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (865 p.)

Collana

Major works of Henry Home, Lord Kames

Natural law and enlightenment classics

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesPeter <1935 Dec. 18->

Disciplina

801/.95

Soggetti

Criticism

Style, Literary

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 6th ed. Edinburgh : J. Bell and W. Creech ; London : T. Cadell and G. Robinson, 1785.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Henry Home, Lord Kames, Elements of Criticism ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction, p. ix ""; ""Editor's Note, p. xix ""; ""Acknowledgments, p.  xxiii ""; ""Elements of Criticism, Volume I ""; ""Original Title Page ""; ""To the King, p. 3 ""; ""Preface to the Second Edition, p. 5 ""; ""Table of Contents, p. 7 ""; ""Introduction, p. 11 ""; ""Chap. 1. Perceptions and Ideas in a train, p. 17 ""; ""Chap. 2. Emotions and Passions, p. 32 ""; ""Part 1. Causes unfolded of the Emotions and Passions, p. 33 ""

""Sect. 1. Difference between Emotion and Passion, p. 33 """"Sect. 2. Power of Sounds to raise Emotions and Passions, p. 43 ""; ""Sect. 3. Causes of the Emotions of Joy and Sorrow, p. 57 ""; ""Sect. 4. Sympathetic Emotion of Virtue, and its cause, p. 48 ""; ""Sect. 5. In many instances one Emotion is productive of another. The same of Passions, p. 52 ""; ""Sect. 6. Causes of the Passions of Fear and Anger, p. 62 ""; ""Sect. 7. Emotion caused by Fiction, p. 66 ""; ""Part 2. Emotions and Passions as pleasant and painful, agreeable and disagreeable, p. 77 ""

""Part 3 . Interrupted Existence of Emotions and Passions, p. 83 """"Part 4 . Coexistent Emotions and Passions, p. 89 ""; ""Part 5 . Influence of Passion with respect to our Perceptions, Opinions, and Belief, p. 112 ""; ""Appendix. Methods that Nature hath afforded for computing Time



and Space, p. 121 ""; ""Part 6 . The Resemblance of Emotions to their Causes, p. 129 ""; ""Part 7 . Final Causes of the more frequent Emotions and Passions, p. 131 ""; ""Chap. 3. Beauty, p. 141 ""; ""Chap. 4. Grandeur and Sublimity, p. 150 ""; ""Chap. 5. Motion and Force, p. 179 ""

""Chap. 6. Novelty, and the Unexpected Appearance of Objects, p. 185 """"Chap. 7. Risible Objects, p. 193 ""; ""Chap. 8. Resemblance and Dissimilitude, p. 197 ""; ""Chap. 9. Uniformity and Variety, p. 216 ""; ""Appendix. Concerning the Works of Nature, chiefly with respect to Uniformity and Variety, p. 229 ""; ""Chap. 10. Congruity and Propriety, p. 233 ""; ""Chap. 11. Dignity and Grace, p. 245 ""; ""Chap. 12. Ridicule, p. 253 ""; ""Chap. 13. Wit, p. 264 ""; ""Chap. 14. Custom and Habit, p. 280 ""; ""Chap. 15. External Signs of Emotions and Passions, p. 296 ""

""Chap. 16. Sentiments, p. 311 """"Chap. 17. Language of Passion, p. 348 ""; ""Elements of Criticism, Volume II ""; ""Chap. 18. Beauty of Language, p. 373 ""; ""Sect. 1. Beauty of Language with respect to Sound, p. 375 ""; ""Sect. 2. Beauty of Language with respect to Signification, p. 382 ""; ""Sect. 3. Beauty of Language from a resemblance between Sound and Signification, p. 428  ""; ""Sect. 4. Versification, p. 438 ""; ""Chap. 19. Comparisons, p. 495 ""; ""Chap. 20. Figures, p. 533 ""; ""Sect. 1. Personification, p. 533 ""; ""Sect. 2. Apostrophy, p. 554 ""; ""Sect. 3. Hyperbole, p. 557 ""

""Sect. 4. The Means or Instrument conceived to be the agent, p. 564 ""