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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 799 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Longinus condemned not only Licinia and Marcia, but also several other persons; but the extreme severity with which he acted on this occasion was generally reprobated by public opinion.
		Among them was one which enacted that no one should be a senator whom the people had condemned, or who had been deprived of their imperium: this law was levelled against his personal enemy, Q. Servilius Caepio, who had been deprived of his imperium on account of his defeat by the Cimbri.
		cassius longinus varus, of uncertain descent, was consul b.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1907.html (925 words)

	Longinus on the Sublime: Sublime and the Modern Perceiver -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		Longinus further adds, “it is good for us too, when we are working at some subject which demands sublimity of thought and expression, to have some idea in our minds as to how Homer might have expressed the same thought, how Plato or Demosthenes would have raised it to the sublime.
		In general, Longinus’ concern with oratory considers the use of figures from a different angle, where grandeur, ornamentation, imposition, strangeness and surprise are the chief functions of the figures of speech.
		Longinus is a romanticist in his theory of sublimity as he recommends to judge a work on the basis of its power to carry away, transport and move to ecstasy by its grandeur and passion through the nobility of diction.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/1014 (3540 words)

	What Is Literature: A Brief Survey of Answers
		Literature is an imitation of nature that is executed not by copying nature directly but rather by imitating the works and techniques of previous writers who are somehow "closer" to nature and to the original.
		Literature is an imitation which has been judged to have value over a period of centuries as a true but general reflection of human nature in a variety of real or imaginary circumstances.
		Literature is "the best of what has been thought and written." Poetry, at least, is an imitation of a noble action and ought to impart pleasure by permitting a "vent in action" of emotions which would otherwise be stifling.
	campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/kevin.binfield/whatislit.htm (399 words)

	The Art of Literature (Rexroth's Encyclopaedia Britannica article)
		To use the word writing when describing literature is itself misleading, for one may rightly speak of “oral literature” or “the literature of preliterate peoples.” The art of literature is not reducible to the words on the page; they are there because of the craft of writing.
		By the time literature appears in the development of a culture, the society has already come to share a whole system of stereotypes and archetypes: major symbols standing for the fundamental realities of the human condition, including the kind of symbolic realities that are enshrined in religion and myth.
		Popular literature today is produced either to be read by a literate audience or to be enacted on television or in the cinema; it is produced by writers who are members, however lowly, of an elite corps of professional literates.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/essays/literature.htm (9873 words)

	Longinus (literature) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Longinus (Λογγίνος) is a conventional name applied to a Greek teacher of rhetoric or a literary critic who may have lived in the first or third century AD.
		Finally, Longinus’ treatise is difficult to explain in an academic setting, given the difficulty of the text and lack of “practical rules of a teachable kind” (Russell xliii).
		As "Longinus" says, "The effect of elevated language upon an audience is not persuasion but transport," a fitting sentiment for Romantic thinkers and writers who reach beyond logic, to the wellsprings of the Sublime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Longinus_(literature) (2801 words)

	LONGINUS - THE SUBLIME - FULL TEXT FOR STUDENTS - IN TEN WEBPAGE PARTS - PART ONE
		On the Sublime, a Greek treatise of literary criticism, was long attributed to Longinus, but it is now agreed that the author, often known as Pseudo-Longinus, lived in the 1st cent.
		This, however, may be condoned in some degree since those who use this particular phrase in his narrative are barbarians and in their cups, but not even in the mouths of such characters is it well that an author should suffer, in the judgment of posterity, from an unseemly exhibition of triviality.
		V All these ugly and parasitical growths arise in literature from a single cause, that pursuit of novelty in the expression of ideas which may be regarded as the fashionable craze of the day.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /longinus01.htm (1911 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Polish Literature
		At this period, too, the Jesuit Skarga, the purest embodiment of Polish patriotism in literature, preached and wrote, calling upon all Poles to save their country, though that country was then so powerful that his cry of alarm was like the voice of a prophet.
		During this period, the general course of literature was very like that of the preceding epoch, but more strongly marked with patriotic sadness as became a generation imbued with the constitutional ideas of the Four Years' Diet, but grown up under the shadow of a great catastrophe.
		Poles had come to be ignorant of any other literature, and the pseudo-classic taste of the time, together with the glamour of Napoleon's victories, had an excessive influence upon both literature and politics, upon language and social life.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12196a.htm (5004 words)

	Greek Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Greek Literature: Volume 3: Greek literature in the Archaic Period: The Emergence of Authorship selected and introduced by Gregory Nagy (Garland Routledge) The archaic period, the topic of this volume, is difficult to define except negatively.
		Greek Literature: Volume 5: Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Prose of Historiography and Oratory selected and introduced by Gregory Nagy (Garland Routledge) Prose traditions in the history of Greek literature cannot be separated from poetic traditions.
		Greek Literature: Volume 7: Greek Literature in the Hellenistic Period selected and introduced by Gregory Nagy (Garland Routledge) Greek literature in the Hellenistic period, as represented primarily by the scholar poets of the new city‑state Alexandria, is well known for its formalism an stylization (a premier study is that of Bundy 1972, article 1).
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/ancient/greekliterature.htm (10720 words)

	English Course Description
		An in-depth analysis of American literature from the colonial beginnings to the present, stressing the relationship between literature and the historical background of the nation, as well as the various genres associated with each period.
		This course is a study of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the presnt, stressing the relationship between literature and the historical background of the British, as well as the various genres associated with each period.
		A broad examination of literature often taught to children, and techniques useful in using literature as a teaching material with children through their early adolescent years.
	www.tamiu.edu /course/engl.htm (1868 words)

	SUBLIME.
		Longinus, writing in the classical historical tradition says that the sublime implies that man can, in emotions and in language, transcend the limits of the human condition.
		Longinus explains that this "beyond" is comprehended in terms of metaphor, or in terms of what is absent from the empirical world.
		Longinus centers also on figurative language, discussing the great writers of the past and their importance, our "possession 'by a spirit not one's own.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/patten/sublime.html (1172 words)

	IX. On Reading the Bible (II). Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. 1920. On the Art of Reading
		Till now, I was acquainted only with two ways of criticising a beautiful passage: the one, to show, by an exact anatomy of it, the distinct beauties of it, and whence they sprung; the other, an idle exclamation, or a general encomium, which leaves nothing behind it.
		And for rapture the sea was disparted, and onward the car-steeds flew.
		Why, very strangely—very strangely indeed, whether you take the treatise to be by that Longinus, the Rhetorician and Zenobia’s adviser, whom the Emperor Aurelian put to death, or prefer to believe it the work of an unknown hand in the first century.
	www.bartleby.com /191/9.html (3673 words)

	:: Christendom College :: English Language Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As Ezra Pound wrote, "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree," and the student of great literature may thus become aware, perhaps for the first time, of the power of language to convey a wide range of human and transcendent truths.
		Our literature courses are intended to make available the rich patrimony of Western culture, and to form a Christian perspective on the ways the great writers have used their intellects and imaginations to understand and convey the mystery of man's place in the world.
		ENGL 202 The Literature of Western Civilization IV The fourth semester of the literature core treats of the secularization of Western literary culture consequent on the fragmentation of Christendom by the Protestant Revolt and the so-called Enlightenment, focusing on the tensions between a Christian and a deformed understanding of man's nature and destiny.
	www.christendom.edu /academics/depts/english.htm (2825 words)

	Longinus
		Longinus (Λογγινος) is a conventional name applied to a Greek teacher of rhetoric or literary critic who may have lived in the 1st century AD, and is known only for his treatise On the Sublime (Περι υψους;).
		When the manuscript was being prepared for printed publication, the work was initially attributed to Cassius Longinus (213 - 273 AD), but it is notable that no literature later than the 1st century AD is mentioned, and the work is now usually dated to the early first century AD.
		Sublime effects were a desired end of much Baroque art and literature, and the rediscovered work of "Longinus" went through half a dozen editions in the 17th century, but it was Boileau's 1674 translation of the treatise into French that really started its career in the history of criticism.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Longinus.html (370 words)

	A Manual of Greek Literature, page 485 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Longinus subsequently visited many countries, and became acquainted with all the illustrious philosophers of his age, such as Ammonius Saccas ; Origen, the disciple of Ammonius, not to be confounded with the Christian writer; Plotinus, and Amelius.
		He was a pupil of the two former, and was an adherent of the Platonic philosophy; but instead of following blindly the system of Ammonius, he went to the fountain-head, and made himself thoroughly familiar with the works of Plato.
		On the death of her husband Qdenathus, Longinus became her principal adviser, and it was mainly * Smith, Diet.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /greek-lit/0498.html (432 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Longinus
		Longinus (Cassius Longinus), c.213-273, Greek rhetorician and philosopher of the Neoplatonic school.
		He later became counselor to Queen Zenobia of Palmyra; when the anti-Roman policy he had advocated failed, he was delivered to the Romans, who executed him as a traitor.
		He later lectured in Rome on the philosophy of Plotinus and was the teacher of the Neoplatonist Iamblichus.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Longinus (549 words)

	Critical Theory: Longinus
		Next to nothing is known about the life of Longinus, whose major work of literary criticism, Peri Hypsous, or On the Sublime, was ascribed to Dionysus Longinus when first printed in 1554.
		Some of the works from which Longinus quotes, such as those of the poet Sappho, preserve text that would otherwise be lost.
		Longinus believed in the mind/soul duality, as the poet must use lofty thoughts as well as powerful emotions.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/critical/longinus.htm (219 words)

	Longinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Longinus in Christian legend is the name of the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus on the cross.
		Longinus (literature), a Greek literary critic who may have lived in the 1st century, wrote a treatise On the Sublime.
		Cassius Dionysius Longinus was an ethnic Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic who became chief counsellor in state affairs to Zenobia, queen of Palmyra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Longinus (192 words)

	COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
		Focuses on literature as a cultural institution, directly related to the construction of individual identity and the dissemination and critique of values.
		Possible areas of study include literature from romantic fiction of early nineteenth century through great realist classics of second half of the century or from symbolism to expressionism and existentialism.
		Literature and history, literature and philosophy, literature and music, literature and the visual arts are all appropriate topics.
	www.washington.edu /students/crscat/complit.html (2619 words)

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		Longinus argues that a work can only be really great if we get carried away with it without even noticing it, whereas Plato claims this to be exactly what needs to be avoided at all costs.
		Longinus holds the making of the sublime as the most important goal in art, and that can be a very individual and personal thing.
		Longinus is at the "top" of the box, representing his beliefs in the sue of lofty language and "sublime" reactions to great literature.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /Users/english/obrien/he44203.html (10044 words)

	David Ketterer- Science Fiction and Allied Literature
		Apocalyptic literature is conceived as one part of a tripartite circular sequence which also includes fantastic literature and mimetic literature.
		At the same time, if the variously faceted definition of apocalyptic literature which I have elaborated in New Worlds for Old is in any way convincing, I believe it allows for a much clearer mapping of the relationships between SF and its encompassing literary structure than does the term speculative literature.
		Of course, all literature which acknowledges in its world view the important role played by science and technology might be considered in some sense sympathetic to SF but, in order for such literature to be considered apocalyptic, developments in the sciences must be in some way correlated with the sense of a radically changed world.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/8/ketterer8art.htm (5950 words)

	LONGINUS - THE SUBLIME - FULL TEXT FOR STUDENTS - IN TEN WEBPAGE PARTS - PART NINE
		Is it not worth while, on this very point, to raise the general question whether we ought to give the preference, in poems and prose writings, to grandeur with some attendant faults, or to success which is moderate but altogether sound and free from error?
		For these are inquiries appropriate to a treatise on the sublime, and they imperatively demand a settlement.
		Such are the decisions to which we have felt bound to come with regard to the questions proposed; but let every man cherish the view which pleases him best.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /longinus09.htm (1301 words)

	Comparative Literature Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Introduction to the major twentieth-century theories of literature, including such approaches as formalism and structuralism, hermeneutics, reception theory, feminist theory, psychoanalytic approaches, post-structuralism and new historicism.
		Examination of what it means to engage in the study of Comparative Literature and, in particular, of current issues and debates within the discipline.
		The first third of the block will be devoted to exploring the questions that translation raises about language, literature, authority, and power, both through readings and through exercises in translation and in translation criticism.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /idprog/ComparativeLiterature/Courses.html (755 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Reviews and Criticism: Theory
		Literature and Ideology - An essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on postmodern critical theory.
		Literature, Cognition, and the Brain - Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience
		Sacred Ambivalence - Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism/Theory (490 words)

	Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms
		One of the earliest forms of Gothic literature, the Female Gothic often aims to socialize and educate its female readers and is usually morally conservative.
		The presence of the Inquisition in Gothic literature functions as a synechdoche of its anti-Catholicismand, with its sense of relentless persecution, figures frequently in depictions of the pursued protagonist.
		This convention in Gothic Literature is often used to obscure objects (see Burke's notion of the sublime) by reducing visibility or to prelude the insertion of a terrifying person or thing.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~dougt/goth.html (10015 words)

	Links - The sublime
		Jack Lynch is professor of English Literature at Rutgers, and specialises in the eighteenth century.
		Burke's essay emphatically sets the sublime in opposition tothe beautiful, and is nowadays notorious for its organisation of the oposition of the two terms in relation to questions of gender, proposing beauty as 'feminine' and sublimity as a 'masculine' attribute.
		Longinus is interested in the power of great poetry - even if it does not follow the 'rules' of 'good' poetry - to throw its readers into transports of ecstacy, to carry them off by the sheer force of its ideas and expression.
	homepage.mac.com /lukewhite/sub_links.htm (1129 words)

	Longinus on sublimity
		Van Cassius Longinus is een retorisch handboek overgeleverd.
		Zoals gezegd is Cassius Longinus in de 19de en 20ste eeuw terzijde geschoven als mogelijke auteur van het tractaat.
		Mijn conclusie is dat de argumenten tegen Cassius Longinus niet zo overtuigend zijn als op het eerste gezicht lijkt.
	home.wanadoo.nl /paulfoka/17/Longinus.html (1634 words)

	Longinus
		Longinus identifies three pitfalls to avoid on the quest for sublimity:
		Longinus identifies as the source of these "ugly and parasitical growths in literature" the "pursuit of novelty in the expression of ideas."
		Longinus goes on to identify five elements of the sublime:
	www.brysons.net /academic/longinus.html (386 words)

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