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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... deconstruction , it guides its footsteps . " 14 In a postnuclear age whose critical reflex is some version of deconstructive deferral or decreative nihilism , tex- tual chatterings over the nuclear void , would Frost's speaker in " Fire ...
... ( 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 “ light ” which proliferate in this late poem as a force ...
... deconstructive accounts " of metaphorical play in Stevens are argued in Charles Altieri , “ Wallace Stevens ' Metaphors of Metaphor : Poetry as Theory , " American Poetry 1 ( Fall 1983 ) : 27–48 , wherein " two styles " of metaphoric ...
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