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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... bomb puts an end to all that . " Social historian Paul Boyer in By the Bomb's Early Light ( 1985 ) has aptly described the postnuclear limits of American literary expression of the bomb , from 1945-1950 , with the eery catchphrase of ...
... bomb is no " flower " of loveli- ness , and Williams's ( deconstructive ) trope knows it . For the bomb puts an end to all that : eternalizing tropes of love as " flower " and " sun " and so forth , the enduring Renaissance metaphors of ...
... bomb could bring with it . He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long taken place , has already happened . Not to mention the single hydrogen bomb , whose trig- gering , thought ...
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