 | John Wilson Foster - 2006 - 255 lehte
...Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1992. SIOBHAN KILFEATHER The Gothic novel Origins of the Gothic novel [Wjhatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant with terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.1... | |
 | Alison Byerly - 1997 - 250 lehte
...almost involuntarily by the spectator who absorbs its power. Burke defines the sublime as "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible." The mind, in contemplating such objects, responds by "claiming to itself some part of the dignity and... | |
 | Philip Shaw - 2006 - 190 lehte
...sublime ('Our Ideas'), gives a clue to this new trajectory. For Burke, the 'source of the sublime' is 'whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant...objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror' (Burke 1990: 36). The first part of this definition appears to confirm Burke as an advocate of the... | |
 | John Wilson Foster - 2006 - 316 lehte
...the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant with terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.' It is something for a man to be able to walk from his own door to his place of worship without being... | |
 | Jeffrey Ruoff - 2006 - 316 lehte
...the sublime hangs heavily over Everest, defined as "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the idea of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort of trouble, is conversant with terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a... | |
 | Edoardo Crisafulli - 2003 - 364 lehte
...mind to an aesthetic notion of the sublime in poetry that was to prove extremely influential: 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, (ibid: 36) In Burke's aesthetics "terror" - the main source or... | |
 | Konstanze Kutzbach, Monika Mueller - 2007 - 311 lehte
...notion of the "terrible sublime" and stresses the significance that death has for the sublime: 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. [...] But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure,... | |
 | 2007 - 240 lehte
...to evolutionary psychology, Burke derives the sublime from our terror of "pain and danger": 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. (I, 7) The sublime is our "strongest emotion" because we are... | |
 | Robert Bruce Campbell - 2007 - 378 lehte
...terror. Edmund Burke, writing at the end of the eighteenth century, identified the sublime as "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...to terror, is a source of the sublime." "That is," Burke added, "it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling."1"5 "To... | |
 | Isabelle Billaud - 2007 - 316 lehte
...great power in these as in most other passions » (Edmund Burke, op. cit., p. 82). 88. « Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source ofthe sublime; that is, it is productive ofthe strongest emotion which the mind is capable offeeling»... | |
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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... 
