Generic features Flashcards
Sublime concept
1) lack of control over it-terrifying
2)Numinous-things much bigger and more important than ones self
3)felt through the body like blood
4)Everything is made clear through perspective-“weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened” –wordsworth
5)wordsworth concentrated on the sublime in his work’ “tranquil restoration”
what is the quote to describe the sublime?
‘Something both greater in size and stature which beauty and power is almost incomprehensible to the human mind which reduces all man’s issues to insignificant in contrast to the numinosity of the experience’
The supernatural or preternatural
What is above nature, mysterious and the inexplicable
-not existing in nature o subject to explanation according to natural or physical
-Attributed to a God or a deity,demigod, spirit or devil.
-Modern Prometheus