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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... cash - value faith in the whole American project to regenerate the vacant land through feats of ( spiritualized ) violence : And over the next guy's shoulder you see we're not that far , as if the ferry will soon return to bear us ...
... values : " I think that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United ... cash - value pragmatism of William James , assumed as one of its phrases what we can only now dis- tance , within ...
... value of everything in this world depends on the answer to this single question : ' How much money does it bring in ... cash - value ethos of self - help and self - cure through self - suggestion , in The Varieties of Religious ...
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