Sublime

Moving along throughout the semester, it’d be fair to say that, as per the presented curriculum of this Senior Seminar, I’ve gained a wider breadth of knowledge, and the means through which my exploration of “the sublime” can be furthered. Coinciding with a range of classical and modern writers, and their respective texts, grants this elusive concept with multifaceted sources and approaches for us to comprehend, whether literal, anecdotal, or otherwise. What’s most striking to me, though, beyond

The sublime Like the Just war theory, the sublime has been an important term in literary criticism and theory. It was first described by the Greek rhetorician known as Longinus in the text On Sublimity, which is seen ‘as one of the most influential classical works in the tradition of European criticism’ (Norton anthology of theory & criticism 133). He defines the sublime as something that ‘contains much food for reflection, is difficult or rather impossible to resist, and makes a strong and ineffaceable

Sublime Sublime was a band of the 90’s who played their first gig back in the summer of l988. This performance that started the famous Peninsula Riot of Long Beach, CA during the 4th of July. This band was once the average garage band that every kid wants to be in. But they changed from backyard beer buddies, into a great musicians. Sublime began recording in early 1992 when they joined up with Long Beach's local studio Skunk Records where they recorded they incredible CD, 40oz to Freedom

manmade things can be interpreted as aesthetically sublime. Things that are sublime are all around, and they attract a lot of attention from the public. Most tourist attractions are considered sublime. The sublime portrays the strong emotions of awe that people have when they see powerful forces of the natural world. Along with tourist attractions being sublime, most art pieces, especially paintings, are sublime. While some artists paint natural, sublime scenes like mountains, volcanoes, and waterfalls

ska, punk, reggae, or hip-hop, then you will love Sublime. They are a perfect combination of all these genres and more. Straight from Long Beach, California, Sublime has made some of the most unique music to date. Their talents go beyond their popular songs on the radio like classic hits "Santeria", "What I Got", and "Smoke Two Joints". Many classify Sublime as stoner rock, which may be true, but their music isn 't limited to only potheads. Sublime is such an interesting band because of their origin

Art of the Sublime Outline Thesis – Expanding on the philosophical and artistic renderings of the sublime through different art periods in an attempt to better understand the huge concept of the sublime and draw similarities and differences behind the intent of the sublime works throughout the different art periods. The ascetic representation of the sublime throughout history has been in reference to grand or imposing landscapes and their relationship between humans and the Gods that created these

Relationship between Sublime and Magical Realism Explored in The Monkey      From the beginning of The Monkey, a short story located within Isak Dinesen's anthology Seven Gothic Tales, the reader is taken back to a “storytime” world he or she may remember from childhood. Dinesen's 1934 example of what has been identified as the "Gothic Sublime" sets the stage for analysis of its relationship to other types of literature. What constitutes Sublime literature? More importantly, how may sublime literature

The sublime moment: a moment of total tranquillity and wonderment, a rare but overwhelming experience that mankind is blessed to behold. Originally imagined by Longinus as far back as 300 BCE, it exists as beauty of the most profound degree, and is so very exquisite that it cannot be truly recreated by man, as Edmund Burke wrote in his essay “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.” Burke believed that we must experience the sublime physically, and witness

Burke's sublime is separated into distinct categories. He categorizes objects of experience by the way in which they impact the senses. Burke associates qualities of "balance," "smoothness," "delicacy" and "color" with the beautiful, while he speaks of the sublime in terms such as "vastness" and "terror" (Burke, 325). Instead Kant dissevers the sublime into the mathematical and the dynamical, where in the mathematical aesthetical comprehension are not a consciousness of a mere more preponderant

The sublime is a feature present in many art works. It is an aesthetics category that, unlike other categories such as beauty or the picturesque, examines great and awe-inspiring phenomena. The sublime is an aesthetic notion that describes the emotions of awe that people experience when they encounter the immense, powerful, and even terrifying forces of the natural world. Like all aesthetic notions, the sublime produces various emotions with the persons viewing a piece of art. Moreover, many