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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... Emerson's essays , sublime excess comes with the territory ; poems of grand solipsism or of Whitmanic scope , ambition - and length - seem like fated natural Occurrences . Fitted into an oedipal framework , the American sublime is situ ...
... Emerson's sermons on American self - belief in " Nature " ( 1836 ) or " The Poet " ( 1844 ) : " The breadth of the problem is great , for the poet is representative . He stands among partial men for the complete man , and apprises us ...
... Emerson , but the cat is surely a rival , minor poet or a socially con- ditioned being who is satisfied with the world - as - given . The cat is Americana without the gloss of a blue guitar . The persona of the rabbit , like some ...
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