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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... called the New York City " Beau - Monde , " Livingston ( 1723-1790 ) held out in an essay called " Of the Waste of Life " ( The Independent Reflector , October 25 , 1753 ) for the more " sublime Pleasures " of philosophical conversation ...
... called the American sublime was there coding Whitman's poetic ego with collective thematics ; or , better said , there constituting what Bakhtin called a speech - genre or " way of seeing and interpreting . ” 3 “ Walt Whitman " emerged ...
... called this " steeled Cogni- zance " of American technology , Kinnell ( like Schell in The Fate of the Earth , 95 ) can only invoke childlike “ ignorance , " some humble stance of naive unknowing that remains founded in a “ surplus of ...
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