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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... dynamic , which is urban architec- ture or urban space itself , can subject the postmodern street- walker - drifting under the toxic sunsets of Los Angeles in which garish chemical colors get synthesized , as in Elvis Presley's death ...
... dynamic of " terror " becomes a way of articulating yet warding off subversive energies and terrors that are soon to be unleashed in the revolutions of America and France , despite his sublimations which would mor- alize the Longinian ...
... dynamic of the sublime as tactics of " neg- ative presentation " are argued to perdure as a transcultural dynamic in Jean - François Lyotard , " The Sublime and the Avant - Garde , " in The Lyotard Reader , ed . Andrew Benjamin ( Oxford ...
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