of Alps, oceans, andatmospheric intensity John Martin’s paintings Fuseli’s paintings Blake’spaintings Beethoven’s later music Wagner’s operas etc.Īn aesthetic based in symmetry, softness, intricacy,attractiveness, fecundity, and powerlessness. 55-60,Wordsworth's and Milton's poetry, Turner's paitings, esp. Literary/paintingsources: see: Collins' "Ode on the Poetical Character" ll. Look for raw geological time, few plants,large rocks, ruins, architectural fragments, the vertical axis of cloud masses,mountains, abysses, natural and supernatural forces (oceans, storms,earthquake, fire, plagues, Armageddon, general bombast). Inpainting, a practical way to look for the sublime is to measure the blastednessof the landscape, barrenness, terror.
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Sublimelanguage for Burke is nondescriptive, unclear, strong, full of emotionalabstraction, and inciting sympathy and contagion of passions. In Longinus, hyposos, or height, is metaphor presiding over the illusionsendemic to reading: we are uplifted as if instinctively, and our proud flightexalts our soul as though we had created what we merely heard (7.2)īurke:Conditions for sublime perceptions include terror, obscurity, power, privation,vastness, infinity, succession and uniformity (artificial or architecturalinfinity, as with columns), magnitude in building, difficulty, magnificence,light, color, sound and loudness, suddenness, discontinuity. Longinus:defines the sublime primarily by its contagion, i.e., we contemplate or viewsublime subjects, or read sublime passages of poetry, and get a rush off them,a sense of swelling inward importance, even though we're partaking of somethingelse's grandeur. One can look at a mountain and feel dwarfed, to the point ofinsignificance, until one imagines a God (or a way of gaining perspective) thatmade the mountain. The experience of overwhelming power: the viewer feelsobliterated by the vastness and power of the object viewed, until the viewerfinds a means of identifying him/herself with something even greater than theobject viewed.
A GLOSSARY OF AESTHETIC TERMS INLANDSCAPE & LITERATURE
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