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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... Whitman became the American sublime that he imagined and saw , inside the self and in the genius loci , and that remains a literary feat immune to ridicule or destruction . Whitman's Americanized Sublime as " Song of Myself " To exist ...
... Whitman with the " hesitant sublime " of Dickinson in The Dickinson Sublime ( Madi- son : Univ . of Wisconsin Press ... Whitman ] so fluently assumes " ( 174 ) . 6 This idea of Leaves as " only a language experiment " is taken from ...
... Whitman , vol . 2 , ed . Emory Holloway ( Gloucester , Mass .: Peter Smith , 1972 ) : 85 . 27 In " A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads " ( 1888 ) , Whitman ad- mitted his debt to sublime poetry of the intertextual past , even from ...
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