All 5 Uses of
stasis
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- It awakens, or ought to awaken, or induces, or ought to induce, an esthetic stasis, an ideal pity or an ideal terror, a stasis called forth, prolonged, and at last dissolved by what I call the rhythm of beauty.†
Chpt 5
- It awakens, or ought to awaken, or induces, or ought to induce, an esthetic stasis, an ideal pity or an ideal terror, a stasis called forth, prolonged, and at last dissolved by what I call the rhythm of beauty.†
Chpt 5
- It means certainly a stasis and not a kinesis.†
Chpt 5 *
- It produces also a stasis of the mind.†
Chpt 5
- The instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the esthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony is the luminous silent stasis of esthetic pleasure, a spiritual state very like to that cardiac condition which the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani, using a phrase almost as beautiful as Shelley's, called the enchantment of the heart.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(stasis) a state of inactivity -- often resulting from a balance between opposing forces