EN 2001- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
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Objects which are small smooth light and delicate. Physical response is of tension (strong emotional response) It is the strongest emotion that the mind can possess. It is happening in the mind not the work of art. In longinus, sublime is in the art itself. Burke suggests that it exists in the perception of the reader. We are scared but we don"t run away. He universalizes that death is a thing we all fear king of terrors however some people think death is not related to fear, they welcome death. We all perceive things subjectively in the same way because it is all based on our senses. The mind actively creates the world we live in. We experiences the world as though it were objective. Judgements of beauty are subjective and not objective. Does not want of discuss the essence of beauty not interested in things thst mske something beautiful.