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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... Romantic England , could no longer suffice to materialize an American poetry able to link the contemplation of nature's sublimity - that " encircling vast- ness " which Bryant felt abounded in the American wilderness as in the ...
... Romantic constitution of the sublime by Burke in 1757 can be seen , beyond local aesthetics , to cooperate in the ... Romantic sublime , however , a more radical " vocation of the sublime " emerges as the Kantian heritage to French ...
... romantic metaphors is from The New Yorker , 5 June 1989 , 40 . 13 The patriotically upbeat lyric , " To Know No Boundaries , " as Merrill Lynch proclaims in vastness - haunted ads for market deregulation and bullish faith in the 1980s ...
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