 | Caroline Case - Animals - 2005 - 260 pages
...with nature. In his classic essay, Burke describes the two experiences in the following way: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | Karin A. Wurst - Games & Activities - 2005 - 520 pages
...company, lively conversation, and the endearment of friendship."3 Regarding the sublime, "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | Jesse Goldhammer - History - 2005 - 386 pages
...Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Burke writes: "Whatever is fined in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger,...that is to say. whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | T. A. Shippey, Martin Arnold - Art, Medieval - 2005 - 260 pages
...which was published in 1757, Edmund Burke describes the sublime as that which repels, as "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible."5 He does not discuss the sublime in relationship to particular works of art, but he does... | |
 | F. R. Ankersmit - History - 2005 - 510 pages
...the sublime experience to death; think of Burke: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the idea of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | John Wilson Foster - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 255 pages
...Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1992. SIOBHAN KILFEATHER The Gothic novel Origins of the Gothic novel [Wjhatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant with terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.1 It... | |
 | Jan Godderis - Lesbians - 2006 - 468 pages
...Edmund Burke's beroemde definitie van de karakteristieken van het sublieme in de kunst: " Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conuersant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | Christopher Johnson - History - 2006 - 340 pages
...emotions are terror and awe. These feelings are associated with the sublime, as he explained: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | Mark Evan Bonds - Music - 2009 - 208 pages
...pain rather than pleasure. For Edmund Burke, the sources of the sublime could be found in "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror." Burke, whose writings... | |
 | Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith - Art - 2006 - 376 pages
...Basil Blackwell, 1958 [1757], Sections VII, X, XIII, XV, XVI, pp. 39-40, 42^3, 44-45, 47-50. Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain,...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
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WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive... 
