scholarly journals Application of Langinus’ Resources of Sublimity in Amish Tripathi’s the Immortals of Meluha

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4736-4738
Keyword(s):  
The Sublime ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Epistolary Form ◽  
Breaking Work

Longinus, besides being one of the most famous ancient philosophers, contributed enormously to the field of art and literature; his concept of ‘Sublime’ which he introduced in his path-breaking work ‘On the Sublime’, written in epistolary form and addressing Posthunius Terentianus, has constantly been used to evaluate literature over the years. This paper studies Amish Tripathi’s ‘The Immortals of Meluha’, the first of the three novels of his Shiva Trilogy, using the five parameters that Longinus set forth to appraise if a work of literature has achieved sublimity or not. Written in simple, yet effective language, the fantasy retelling of the story of Indian mythological God Lord Shiva, The Immortals of Meluha has uplifting thoughts and the capacity to kindle readers’ emotions which Longinus propagated as two of the major qualities of sublime writing.

scholarly journals Sublimity & the Image: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-110
Author(s):  
Erika Goble
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Phenomenological Exploration

For over 2000 years, the sublime has been a source of fascination for philosophers, artists, and even the general public at times. We have written hundreds of treatises on the subject, put forth innumerable definitions and explanations, and even tried to reproduce it in art and literature. But, despite our efforts, our understanding of the sublime remains elusive. In this paper, the sublime is explored as a potential human experience that can be evoked by an image. Drawing upon concrete experiences, the phenomenon of sublimity suggests a compelling, embodied response to the visual object that can evoke a fundamental change of being.

Lucan and the Sublime

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry J. M. Day
Keyword(s):  
The Sublime

Interpassivity and Misdemeanours: The Art of Thinking in Examples and the Žižekian Toolbox

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pfaller
Keyword(s):  
Specific Role ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Sublime

Starting from a passage from Slavoj Žižek`s brilliant book The Sublime Object of Ideology, the very passage on canned laughter that gave such precious support for the development of the theory of interpassivity, this chapter examines a question that has proved indispensable for the study of interpassivity: namely, what does it mean for a theory to proceed by examples? What is the specific role of the example in certain example-friendly theories, for example in Žižek’s philosophy?

‘Machinic Desire’: Wyndham Lewis, Masculinity and the Sublime Horror of Technological War

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 488-514
Author(s):  
Udith Dematagoda
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Wyndham Lewis ◽  
World War ◽  
Technological Society ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
First World

This article explores Wyndham Lewis's experience of the First World War, and its influence on his varied artistic output. It interrogates how Lewis's initial ambivalence towards an emergent technological society shifted through direct encounters with mechanized warfare, and speculates on the effect of these upon his post-war writing and criticism. By contrasting Lewis's thought against that of his Italian Futurist contemporaries, I will demonstrate the centrality of their divergent conceptions of masculinity in accounting for this opposition – and how Lewis's critique of technological society prefigures contemporary opposition towards the post-humanist philosophy of Accelerationism.

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