Webthe sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects, and terrible; The latter on small ones, and pleasing; We submit to what we admire, but we love what. Webfor 250 years poets and artists have been influenced by edmund burke’s theory that experiencing the sublime is related to fearfulness. Now scientists are not afraid to say. Webthis essay considers why the sublime should have fallen out of favour in intellectual circles, using this as the background to examine various ways in which artists continued to. Webthe sublime is a category of aesthetics in romanticism that involves an elevation of the soul in response to something powerful or overwhelming. Webthe terrible potential of the sublime, according to kant, depends essentially on the scale of things. Webdrawing on the ideas of the major theorists of the sublime such as kant and lyotard, this paper focuses on don delillo's white noise (1984) and cosmopolis (2003), and. 1) the sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous. 2) from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but a step. Webthis chapter explores the genealogy of the phrase ‘from the sublime to the ridiculous’, tracing the saying from romantic period attributions to thomas paine and.
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