The Psychology of BeautyHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 286 էջ |
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... vivid and unmistakable æsthetic experience , would ( 1 ) therefore proceed somewhat as follows . " He would select the salient characteristics of his mental state in presence of a given work of art . He would then { study , by ...
... vivid and unmistakable æsthetic experience , would ( 1 ) therefore proceed somewhat as follows . " He would select the salient characteristics of his mental state in presence of a given work of art . He would then { study , by ...
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... vivid , not directly utilitarian , but traditionally excluded from the field . Guyau , for instance , in a charming passage of his " Problèmes de l'Esthétique Contemporaine , " argues for the æsthetic quality of the moment when ...
... vivid , not directly utilitarian , but traditionally excluded from the field . Guyau , for instance , in a charming passage of his " Problèmes de l'Esthétique Contemporaine , " argues for the æsthetic quality of the moment when ...
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... vivid , and yet — like itself alone . Any attempt to disengage special , already known emo- tions , even at the play or in hearing music , is often in vain , in just those moments when our excitement is most intense . But the hypothesis ...
... vivid , and yet — like itself alone . Any attempt to disengage special , already known emo- tions , even at the play or in hearing music , is often in vain , in just those moments when our excitement is most intense . But the hypothesis ...
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... . Whatever the cause , this last is at any rate the fact . All suggestions seem to double in emotional value . Tell the hypnotic subject that he - is sailing up the Rhine , and the most vivid 84 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BEAUTY.
... . Whatever the cause , this last is at any rate the fact . All suggestions seem to double in emotional value . Tell the hypnotic subject that he - is sailing up the Rhine , and the most vivid 84 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BEAUTY.
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... vivid aspect . It may not be that the emotion itself is greater , but it now holds the field . It may not be that it is more intense , but the intensity of concentration which takes on its color makes it seem so . The " rapture " is ...
... vivid aspect . It may not be that the emotion itself is greater , but it now holds the field . It may not be that it is more intense , but the intensity of concentration which takes on its color makes it seem so . The " rapture " is ...
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action aesthetic æsthetic emotion æsthetic experience æsthetic feeling æsthetic pleasure analysis Aristotle attention attitude balance basilar membrane beauty of literature belongs centre clear color combination complementary color complete composition consciousness consonance criticism definition of beauty demands drama ecstasy effect elements equilibrium essential excitement explanation expression fact favorable stimulation felt function Giorgione give given harmony Hegel idea ideal imitation Katharsis less literary logical Madame Guyon Madonna means Meister Eckhart melody ment minor second moral motor impulses movement Nature of Beauty ness organism perfect perfect moment personality physiological picture pity and fear play possible principle psychological PSYCHOLOGY OF BEAUTY psychophysical pyramid question relation religious ecstasy Rembrandt reproduction rhythm rhythmical self-completeness sensations sense Sistine Madonna suggestion symmetry tendency theory thought tion tonality tone tragedy tragic true unity vista visual form vivid whole words
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Էջ 232 - Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.
Էջ 254 - Spirit overhead will look humanely malign, and cast an oblique light on them, followed by volleys of silvery laughter.
Էջ 233 - ... to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion: for so in physic things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours.
Էջ 63 - And up and down, and in and out, He turned; but still the pigtail stout Hung steadily behind him. And though his efforts never slack, And though he twist, and...
Էջ 226 - NEVER the time and the place And the loved one all together ! This path— how soft to pace ! This May — what magic weather ! Where is the loved one's face? In a dream that loved one's face meets mine, But the house is narrow, the place is bleak Where, outside, rain and wind combine With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak, With a hostile eye at my flushing...
Էջ 254 - Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them selfdeceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning shortsightedly, plotting dementedly...
Էջ 212 - The one word for the one thing, the one thought, amid the multitude of words, terms, that might just do: the problem of style was there!— the unique word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, essay, or song, absolutely proper to the single mental presentation or vision within.
Էջ 61 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Էջ 211 - All the laws of good writing aim at a similar unity or identity of the mind in all the processes by which the word . is associated to its import. The term is right, and has its essential beauty, when it becomes, in a manner, what it signifies, as with the names of simple sensations.
Էջ 233 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.