LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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A classical approach
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Romantic approach
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Neo-classical approach
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -For Romantics, the sublime is a meeting of the subjective-internal (emotional) and the objective-external (natural world): we allow our emotions to overwhelm our rationality as we experience the wonder of creation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Notions of the sublime are closely linked with the English Romanticism-artists and writers who were concerned with humankind’s relationship to, and reverence for the natural world; in particular those works of painting or poetry that celebrate the majesty and overwhelming power of the natural world.
Detailed explanation-3: -In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Romantic artists would often use their experiences of nature or natural events to convey the experience of the sublime. Kant’s countryman, Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings of mist, fog, and darkness sought to capture an experience of the infinite, creating an overwhelming sense of emptiness.