Auerbach as a Reader of Longinus. A Note on Dante and the Poetics of the Sublime
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Abstract
The Longinian technique that Erich Auerbach applied to Dante’s Inferno (9.65-72) is not the only possibility of using the Peri hypsous to reconstruct the sublime poetics of the Divine Comedy. But a hasty and superficial reading of Longinus’ treatise did not allow Auerbach to broaden the range of affinities between Dante and Longinus.
Keywords
- Addresses to the Reader
- Apostrophe
- Dante
- Rhetoric
- Theory of Styles
- Sublime
