LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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The effect of the sublime on the physical body
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The distinction between the sublime and beauty
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An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
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The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure
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Detailed explanation-1: -The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757. He defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling.
Detailed explanation-2: -Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) merged psychological and aesthetic questioning by hypothesizing that the spectator’s or reader’s delight in the sublime depended upon a sensation of pleasurable pain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Burke argues that the sublime may be caused by deprivation, darkness, solitude, silence, or vacuity. The sublime may also be caused by immensity or infinity. The sublime may also be caused by magnitude, grandeur, or elegance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Whatever excites this delight, I call sublime. The passions belonging to self-preservation are the strongest of all the passions.