American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic GenreUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1991 - 337 Seiten Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." |
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... capital / symbolic capital ] , but of the commonwealth [ national sublimity / an American sublimity ] " and so on . Lecturing on the conduct of American life in 1851 , upon returning from a musty and smoke - filled England , Emerson was ...
... capital by overcoming the achievements of his precursors . Competition and individual success become the presiding values of poetry as they do in civil society " ( 217 ) . Even critics can be seen to open “ a new economic frontier ...
... Capital becomes ( as in our own day's bottom - line thinking ) the sublime mobility of Capital : " In America nothing is easier than to make oneself rich , so of course the human spirit , which needs some dominant passion , ends by ...
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