 | Zoltán Simon - 2003 - 118 sidor
...emphasized an important new element in his definition of the sublime, namely terror and fear. "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, [.. .] is a source of the sublime, [.. .] the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling"... | |
 | Alexandra Wettlaufer - 2003 - 316 sidor
...pleasure in pain, for in contradistinction to beauty, which excites feelings of joy and delight, "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is ''Longinus, "On the Sublime" in Classical Literary Criticism, ed. DA Russell and M. Winterbottom (Oxford:... | |
 | H. Peter Loewer - 2004 - 280 sidor
...vallies." Edmund Burke (1729—97) wrote in his 1756 Essay on the Suhlime and the Beautiful: "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." Jefferson himself also wrote several books, including The Garden... | |
 | Martin Edward Thomas - 2004 - 350 sidor
...pain', it is from the latter that we derive our sense of the sublime. As he described it: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. Among the numerous examples that constitute the bulk of Burke's... | |
 | Andrew Smith - 2004 - 202 sidor
...moment as it corresponds to a model of the sublime seemingly without transcendence. For Burke, 'Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime' (emphasis Burke's).4 De Quincey attempts to resolve this through a Kantian faith in the presence of... | |
 | Hermann Doetsch - 2004 - 450 sidor
...die weitgehend meiner Analyse entspricht. Wliatever isßtted in any sort to exäte the ideas ofpain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort...source of the SUBLIME; that is, it is productive of the strängest emotion which the mind is capable offeeling (Burke 39). Bamouw (1980) unterstreicht diesen... | |
 | William Pfaff - 2004 - 392 sidor
...bomber. Another man speaks of the "sublime effect ... of destructive power," and adds, "Whatsoever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...danger, that is to say whatever is in any sort terrible, is a source of the sublime." But this is not an ideologically intoxicated terrorist speaking; it is... | |
 | Alain Parent - 2005 - 300 sidor
...et morales avec la nature grandiose. Ce que Burke a pu écrire cadre bien avec cette image: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling (cité dans ibid. : 628). D'autres penseurs contemporains attestent... | |
 | Caroline Case - 2005 - 260 sidor
...with nature. In his classic essay, Burke describes the two experiences in the following way: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. (Burke 1757: 216) Qualities of the sublime: astonishment, terror,... | |
 | Anette Naumann - 2005 - 642 sidor
...Schrift A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin ofour Ideas ofthe Sublime and the Beautiful: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. Alles, was auf irgendeine Weise geeignet ist, die Ideen von Schmerz... | |
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WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas 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... 
