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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... theory . " The sublime func- tions not so much as the will to theorize social totality as the com- pulsion to abandon the delusions of theory as idealist fiction . The social formations under capital render approaches to theorizing ...
... Theory and Criticism , from the Greeks to the Present , vol . 1 ( New York : Chelsea House , 1985 ) . For related concerns set in a more European context , see Marshall Brown , V. Fortunati , and G. Franci , eds . , La Via al Sublime ...
... Theory of Poetry , ' in Wallace Stevens : A Celebration , ed . Frank Doggett and Robert Buttel ( Princeton : Prince- ton Univ . Press , 1980 ) : 286-307 . On the adjectival components of the sublime style , imported from Miltonic ...
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