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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... democratic authors when they turned away from the petti- ness of the ego ( “ a very insignificant person , namely himself ” ) or towards the dullness of business life . This was especially so " when they attempt a poetic style " beyond ...
... democratic and new , whose " thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things " ( " By Blue Ontario's Shore " [ 348 ] ) . Benjamin T. Spencer has called this American " assumption that grandeur in scenery would issue in sublimity of ...
... Democratic Centuries , " ( in Democracy in America , vol . 2 , trans . George Lawrence [ New York : Harper & Row , 1966 ] ) , Alexis de Tocqueville warned self - equalized yet grandeur - hungry democratic authors in " these vast ...
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