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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... atom bomb could bring with it . He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has ... Atomic weapons demonstrate that the " terrible has already hap- pened " in the sense that the sublime aura ...
... rupture of atomic forces in these terms : " All seemed to feel that they had been present at the birth of a new age — the Age of Atomic En- ergy — and felt their profound responsibility to help in 321 Notes to Pages 226-29.
... atomic bomb in " Post- modern as Post - Nuclear : Landscape as Nuclear Grid , ” in Ethics / Aes- thetics : Post - Modern Positions , ed . Robert Merrill ( Washington , D.C .: Maisonneuve Press , 1988 ) : 169–92 . The atomic landscape as ...
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