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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... discourse of submission to a naturalized sys- tem - Capital — which has become the " always - already - given " of global vastness that the ego must now contend with through ges- tures of alienation , transcendence , nature retreat ...
... discourse of the expansive self , Whitman's work lingers on in the literary unconscious to register a central version of the Amer- ican sublime : at once model and threat to subsequent voicings of august mountains and lakes ...
... Discourse of the Sublime : Read- ings in History , Aesthetics and the Subject ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1989 ) . Concentrating on a discourse - analysis of 1756-1763 ( the Seven Years ' War ) , when Edmund Burke , Alexander Gerard , and ...
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