...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...consequence reason on that object which employs it. (1990: 53) In Lyotard's terms, the feeling of astonishment testifies to the existence of a different:...

...tableaux in which he dramatized the experience of that moment of astonishment when, according to Burke, "the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that...by consequence reason on that object which employs it."44 Belzoni repeatedly evokes the hugeness of his finds in an attempt to conjure in his readers...

...excessive force of the sublime object: the mind is literally overflowing with this thing— so much so that "it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it."53 The "astonishment" in the soul is an experience of excess that produces a sensation of horror....

...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far GLOBALIZATION from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible...

...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far 353 GLOBALIZATION from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on by...

...Sublimity is experienced when the senses are swamped and the paralyzed mind made incapable of reflection: "In this case the mind is so entirely filled with...consequence reason on that object which employs it." What, for Locke, would then be the extinction of human experience counts, for Burke, as its highest...

...pain and fear. Objects that impress us with their sublimity "suspend" the motions of the soul (95): the "mind is so entirely filled with its object, that...consequence reason on that object which employs it" (96). One's sense of self is held in abeyance and even reason is overcome, but this suspension then...

...astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions arc suspended, with some degree of horror. * In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its...any other, nor by consequence reason on that object vvhich employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that, far from being produced by them,...

...state of the mind which is the consummation of the sublime, (ii. 353-4) Burke's statement was that "in this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other" (p. 57). Both theorists mean that the thing observed is the sole object of the observer's attention;...