Concetti Chiave
- The sublime, a Latin-origin term, refers to expressions of noble feelings in linguistic, literary, or artistic forms.
- Burke emphasized the sublime's impact on the perceiver, shifting focus from the object's qualities to the individual's experience.
- The sublime evokes astonishment and can range from admiration to terror, often linked to vastness, obscurity, and power.
- Burke identifies sources of sublimity in art as magnitude, difficulty, and specific dark or somber colors, excluding lighter shades.
- The sublime's roots lie in fear and horror, influencing 18th-century literature, especially the Gothic Novel, with themes of obscurity and terror.
The Sublime
Scholars have debated the term sublime in the field of aesthetics for centuries.
The term, of Latin origin, refers to a to a linguistic, literary or artistic form which expresses noble or elevated feelings and behaviour.
The writing of Burke contained two themes which are particularly important to conceptions of the sublime.
The first was that the sublime should be discussed in terms of its effects upon the perceiver.
For the first time the person who enjoys sublimity became more important than the qualities of the pleasing object.
In his Philosophical Enquiry Burke generates a conception of the sublime in connection with our encounter with nature as well as art.
The sublime now becomes what causes astonishment,"that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror".
In lesser degrees, the sublime produces admiration, reverence and respect.
In greater degrees, the sublime is that which produces terror.
Objectively, we are terrified by the vastness of the ocean; by obscurity, which hides the fu extent of a danger from us; by what is powerful; and by what is infinite.
In relation to art, Burke lists as sources of sublimity: magnitude, for example of a building; difficulty; magnificence and colour, the sublime excludes white, green, yellow, blue, violet and requires sad and fuscous colours like black, brown or deep purple.
The.sublime does neither arise from the pleasure produced by beautiful forms nor from the detached contemplation of the object, but has its roots in the feeling of fear and horror created by what is infinite and terrible.
For example, void, obscurity and silence are sublime. This horrible beauty, identified by Burk, affected the literature of the end of the 18th century.
The taste for obscurity, terror and introspection became the distinguishing feature of the Gothic Novel.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Qué es lo que hace que algo sea sublime según Burke?
- ¿Cómo se relaciona lo sublime con la naturaleza y el arte?
- ¿Qué impacto tuvo la concepción de lo sublime de Burke en la literatura del siglo XVIII?
Según Burke, lo sublime es aquello que causa asombro y puede producir terror, admiración, reverencia y respeto. Se relaciona con la vastedad, la oscuridad, el poder y lo infinito, y se experimenta más por el efecto en el perceptor que por las cualidades del objeto.
Burke conecta lo sublime con nuestra experiencia de la naturaleza y el arte, destacando que lo sublime en el arte proviene de la magnitud, la dificultad, la magnificencia y ciertos colores oscuros, mientras que en la naturaleza se asocia con la vastedad y el poder.
La concepción de lo sublime de Burke, centrada en el terror y la introspección, influyó en la literatura del siglo XVIII, especialmente en la novela gótica, que se caracterizó por un gusto por la oscuridad, el terror y la introspección.
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