ENGL 3251H Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Simplon Pass, Picturesque, Immanuel Kant
11 Nov 2015
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Revolutionary poetics: natural supernaturalism as the end of mimetic ( mirror ) Sublime: every romantic has their own, sublime blowing away your reason. Book sixth, cambridge and the alps: lines 339-421 [arrival in france] Book sixth, lines 488-572 [travelling in the alps. The sublime, the beautiful, and the picturesque, longman"s anthology, pp. 30-33 (introduction); edmund burke, 33-39; immanuel kant, 56-58: picture on page 36, kant. People speak as though the sublime is out there in nature, but it is actually in the mind. Whole experience depending on what happens in your head. Because of your safety you have a distance between self-preservation. You are more powerful than nature because we are moral and nature is not. The human mind is more powerful than anything out there in nature. Setting up imagination as a kind of god. Leaving the sublime in the material objects out there (matter) The ocean is the most sublime of them all depth and infinity.
