LONGINUS: ON THE SUBLIME FIVE PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF SUBLIMITY IN LITERATURE By the word ‘sublime’ Longinus‚ means elevation or loftiness – all that raises style above the ordinary‚ and gives it distinction in its widest and truest sense. So sublimity is a certain distinction and excellence in composition. Longinus says that‚ both nature and art contribute to sublimity in literature. Art is perfect when it seems to be nature‚ and nature hits the mark when she contains art hidden within her. The five
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Longinus--On the Sublime Longinus‚ like Horace‚ takes a pragmatic position. His central question is‚ what is good writing‚ and how may it be achieved? His first answer is that good writing partakes of what he calls the "sublime." OK‚ so far that isn’t terribly helpful. Good writing takes part of the good. TAUTOLOGY ALERT! TAKE COVER UNDER THE NEAREST COPY OF THE O. E. D.! What is the sublime? "Sublimity is a certain distinction and excellence in expression." Well . . . that’s a little better
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The Sublime In Lyotard’s reading Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime‚ he explains how critical thought exists within an infinite amount of creativity with no principles but in search of them. Lyotard understands the Kantian sublime as a way to comply with the standards that critically analyze postmodernism using deconstruction. Kant differentiated the sublime between the vastness and greatness and the dynamic sublime. The vastness sublime is so great we can’t just use our senses like we normally
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Sublime Sublime was a band of the 90’s who played their first gig back in the summer of l988. This performance that started the famous Peninsula Riot of Long Beach‚ CA during the 4th of July. This band was once the average garage band that every kid wants to be in. But they changed from backyard beer buddies‚ into a great musicians. Sublime began recording in early 1992 when they joined up with Long Beach’s local studio Skunk Records where they recorded they incredible
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Castle of Otranto: Theory of the Sublime The theory of the sublime is something that has a strong emergence‚ adaption‚ revision and contestation in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto that is presented in a manner in regards to the actual elements that form the "gothic." As well as also linking it to the sublime through the exploration of sheer emotion and terror as well as the traditional force of light versus darkness that can only be likened to the sublime. The sublime as highlighted in Burke’s Philosophical
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Edmund Burke gives us his version of the sublime in his book‚ "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." He links beauty with pleasure and sublimity with pain and terror. He views the beautiful as what is aesthetically pleasing and well formed. From Burke’s point of view‚ the sublime is not corporeal‚ it is a generated plethora of sensations that are attached to the experience of being in the presence of the sublime. There is a predominant feeling of astonishment
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thus getting affronted and resentful? Edmund Burke1 explored the sublime with regard to physiological related responses to phenomena‚ denoting as an inherent tendency of self-preservation: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the idea of pain‚ and danger‚ that is to say‚ whatever is in any sort terrible‚ or is conversant about terrible objects‚ or operates in a manner analogous to terror‚ is a source of the sublime; that is‚ it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is
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Assignment #3 The Sublime Part 1 In Neil Hertz’s essay‚ The Notion of Blockage in the Literature of the Sublime‚ Neil uses the work of William Wordsworth to makes a connection to the very distinguished and particular notion of the mathematical sublime by Immanuel Kant. The mathematical sublime is the perception that reason has this superiority over imagination because reason and logic is boundless whereas imagination is limited to what we have personally experienced through our senses. When in
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Happoldt‚ called The Juice Bros. The band was a purely punk rock band. Then‚ Brad Nowell dropped out of the University of California and joined the band. Nowell introduced ska and reggae to the band to form the band’s punk‚ ska‚ and reggae blend. Sublime was formed in 1988 in Long Beach‚ California during the California punk explosion along with bands like Green Day and the Offspring. They were a garage punk band that mainly played in parties and small clubs throughout California. The band played
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William Wordsworth‚ is a romantic poem that uses natural landscapes to induce an individual’s sublime emotional states. Sublime‚ according to Edmund Burke‚ is a profound emotional state experienced when someone is close to wild or dangerous events‚ but not directly in the path of danger. Carl Grosse‚ however‚ criticizes this definition and argues that danger only paralyzes the emotions and blocks sublime from emerging. By juxtaposing society with nature‚ youth with maturity‚ and life with death‚ Wordsworth
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