Sublime

According to Edmund Burke in his treatise, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful the sublime is "the strongest emotion that the mind is capable of feeling" and it is caused by the idea of pain and danger: not actual pain or actual danger, but the idea of experiencing themes. In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly sublime nature plays a big role. This essay will argue how nature is wonderfully restorative and refreshing for the soul and how removing it…

Summary Edmund Burkes work entitled, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1770) is an examination of human passions and sensations, specifically what they are and how they are represented with a focus on the sublime. Burke describes the sublime as a quality that evokes feelings of pain, danger and terror, a product of the strongest of emotions including awe, dread and fear which can be experienced by individuals (Burke, 1770). Burke suggests they…

In fact, David Nye in the Introduction to the American Technological Sublime argues that Americans have been fascinated with the sublime nature of technology. Stating that the dynamic, geometric and electric sublimes are what spark this fascination, one can find that this American craving can be easily connected to the spectacles that Americans found truly sublime. For example, the spectacle of race was extremely apparent in the Colombian Exposition due to the symbolism…

Sublime Nature during the Romantic Period Both Mary Shelley and William Wordsworth incorporated sublime nature and nature itself in their writings of Frankenstein, and Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. While both speakers in Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, and Frankenstein could have looked for love and happiness in a person they found it in nature because of the way the two polar opposites together made the…

Sublime Industry and Risky Aesthetics: A Comparison of Edward Burtynsky’s OIL and Karen Solie’s “Bitumen” Karen Solie’s poem “Bitumen” (2015) and Edward Burtynsky’s photography collection OIL (2009) both question the adequacy of sublime aesthetics as a representational mode for depicting the effects of industry. I will explore how the oil industry is represented as sublime in Burtynsky’s OIL and the critical and ironic distance this representation requires. Informing this will be historical…

Burke establishes that the Sublime can produce pleasure. The Sublime may inspire horror, but one receives pleasure in knowing that the perception is a fiction (Burke). Burke’s notions of pleasure and the Sublime can easily be seen as conducive to Barthes’ ideologies of texts of pleasure and bliss. However, it still establishes that a moment with the Sublime is the unconscious end goal of texts of bliss. Barthes wrote, “The text you write must…

Gothic Fiction: Finding The Sublime Gothic Fiction novels are normally very gloomy and depressing. Novels of the Gothic Fiction genre usually take place in a towering castle with a very ominous vibe. Most people that are interested in the Gothic Fiction genre tells that Gothic Fiction is very gloomy and depressing, but Gothic Fiction authors are actually quite romantic. Gothic Fiction represents sadness and depression but it also can have a soft side to it as well. Readers of Gothic…

do we consider as sublime and do we, the people, consider ourselves as sublime nature? At this point it is important to note that this essay will be dealing with a different approach to sublime nature. "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." (New Jerusalem Bible, Gen. 3.8). In the following Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is used to discuss if human beings are not only considered as natural but as the most sublime nature on…

land. I was correct, it shows the overwhelming amount of land that has been changed in order to get more tourist to come visit this Island. I thought having a painting would be best because usually when people think of Hawai’i they think of the sublime land in which they want to visit. There are many paintings that show the beautiful and breathtaking views all around the Island, but the paintings that show the low-income locations/pollution/construction are not as favored. Therefore, choosing…

Sublime: The Right Way We all listen to music, but do we always listen and understand the lyrics? When you listen to a song for the first time, you’re just getting a feel for the song, and you enjoy the beat. The next time you listen to the song, you actually try to listen to the words. You start to understand what they are saying, and find lines you like the most and figure out what the artist means. These lyrics will be looked at from a sociological perspective, for the song “Wrong Way”…