“If black and white blend, soften, and unite
A thousand ways, are there no black and white?”
Thank you for your comment Melanie. According to Burke in the Section XII of the sublime, ‘The Real Cause of Beauty’ he considers beauty to be some qualities of the bodies acting ‘mechanically’ upon the human mind by the ‘intervention of the senses’…[Read more]
In reply to - asattar wrote a new post, Help! I’m Dreadfully Confused. Who is the ‘Real Monster,’ here?, on the site English 120: The Gothic Imagination The Romantic notion of turning to the sublime for comfort is evident in […]