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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The word “sublime” means: to inspire great admiration or awe tending to inspire awe because of elevated quality or beauty. The band Sublime does not fall short of this grandiose title. For my mars playlist I chose to put the song “Don’t Push” off of Sublime’s debut 1992 album “40oz to Freedom”. This track’s nonchalant story-telling lyrics‚ heavily delayed dopey vocals‚ catchy bassline‚ reggae guitar riffs‚ and their free-spirited punk attitude‚ perfectly depicts my favorite aspect of Sublime’s signature
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in a manner analogous to terror‚ is a source of the sublime; beauty is a name I shall apply to all such qualities in things as induce in us a sense of affection and tenderness‚ or some other passion the most resembling these.” (Burke) Edmund Burke sees painting as two very different realms of emotions. On one side‚ there are beauties‚ which are the emotions that might cause feelings of calmness‚ gentleness‚ joyfulness‚ brightness. Where sublime emotions are darker and opposite of beauty‚ like‚ gloomy
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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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the writing does not contain facts from the incident. One of the many creative nonfictions written by Beard is “Werner.” Werner Hoeflich heads home to his apartment in New York City after spending the evening at his catering job. Between the hours of four and five A.M.‚ Werner catches sounds of squeals and he wakes up to discover a tremendous amount of smoke floating in his apartment. Werner jumps out the window into the next door building; he astoundingly survives the devastating fire. Beard very effectively
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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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Burke would describe this image as sublime because of the power‚ vastness‚ and difficulty in which it represents. To be more specific‚ Burke believed that all things sublime hold some type of power. He says‚ “I know of nothing sublime which is not in some modification of power” (Cahn and Meskin 116). He also explains that the sublime must make us feel a type of fear. The sublime cannot just be strong and unable to hurt us. “Whenever strength is only useful‚ and employed for our benefit or our pleasure
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The sublime in visual arts and music Pintura The raft of the medusa Théodore Géricault . Contemporary and political relevance. They are hanging between life and death . Drama in the wild ocean and the hope of salvation. Murder and cannibalism. There is a certain realism in the painting which at the time was an innovation yet is isn’t completely realistic‚ there is not realism in an absolute sense because there is certain idealization of the human figures‚ they are shown in very heroic poses when
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