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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... claims of sublime afflatus in Whitman , if not the painterly movement of sub- lime tropes into American Luminism - that the positive , or Longi- nian , version of performative enthusiasm proved amenable to American purposes and subjects ...
... claims to " demonization ” through dialogue with in- digenous forces that would belittle claims that were less than High Romantic . Whatever the lure of near beauty , the sublime is an oc- cupational hazard . As Geoffrey H. Hartman ...
... claims , " Bryant's ecstatic beholding has little to do with what he sees . " " Bryant's sublimity is scarcely " whit manic . " Yet such a poetry is rather a generic necessity . A libertarian stance , such as William Livingston's in ...
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