Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Էջ 103Edmund Burke - 1806Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Linda L. Revie - 2003 - 223 էջ
...the sublime. The following quotation from Burke is an £ account of this phenomenological process: In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...reasonings, and hurries us on by an Irresistible force. 1 Twentieth-century critics Frances Ferguson, Samuel Monk, and Thomas Weiskel analyze this as the moment... | |
| Dóra Janzer Csikós - 2003 - 142 էջ
...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...being produced by them, it anticipates our reasonings, & hurries us on by an irresistable force" (quoted in De Luca 101). "Astonishment", then, incorporates... | |
| Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 էջ
...is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degrees of horror. . . Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that...reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force. (Enquiry, 57) As an aesthetic of extreme situations, Burke's theory of the sublime may be seen not... | |
| Horace Walpole - 2003 - 364 էջ
...York: WW Norton, 1968), 1087-1089. reason. Such terrible moments are enjoyable and even elating because "the mind is so entirely filled with its object that...consequence reason on that object which employs it" (57). Other emotional compensations included the evocation of a high astonishment which produced in... | |
| Reuven Tsur - 2003 - 388 էջ
...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object that it cannot entertain any other ... Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree; the inferior effects are admiration,... | |
| Alexander Tzonis - 2004 - 554 էջ
...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...hurries us on by an irresistible force. Astonishment, as 1 have said, is the effect of the sublime in its highest 13501 degree; the inferior effects are admiration,... | |
| Stephen Prince - 2004 - 284 էջ
...mind shuts down as the body feeds us shocking information; fear outruns our reason. Burke comments, "Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that...our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force."19 Dread is like Burke's sublime. It too involves irrationality or a-rationality. The object... | |
| James Kirwan - 2006 - 210 էջ
...is, to a great extent, the model of Kant's treatment of the subject here, describes how in sublimity the mind is 'so entirely filled with its object, that...consequence reason on that object which employs it', so that the sublime 'hurries us on by an irresistible force'.35 Something of this moral ambivalence... | |
| David Louis Sedley - 2005 - 224 էջ
...mind is capable of feeling" (1.7.39). As such, sublimity has the strength to make one unreasonable: In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force. (2.1.57) Sublime experiences have such high value because they demonstrate how weak reason in the abstract... | |
| Richard Haw - 2005 - 332 էջ
...that the power of the sublime "is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended. ... In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...by consequence reason on that object which employs it."89 Both Burke and Nye are interested in the direct experience of the sublime encounter, yet what... | |
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