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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... Song of Myself , " to use the central example of the sublime genre , becomes more , not less , representative of prior American poetics . He does not invent so much as transform conventions and materials of American poetics . The ...
... ( song of selfhood ) suggestive of the spirit grand and unseen behind the " body electric . " " Song of Myself " continues the production of the sublime poem in America , then , putting its conventions of self - power ( rapture ) close to ...
... Song of Myself , ” 10 , 27–28 , 29 , 34 , 39-40 , 54 , 62 , 63 , 70 ; as a sublime poem , 132 , 134–35 , 136 , 139 , 140 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 145–52 , 164–66 , 170 , 202 - " Song of the Broad - Axe , " 162 - " Song of the Exposition ...
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