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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... Empty Space , " filling atomic " emptiness " through a barrage of antic images fighting off the bomb - desert spaces never to be empty ( in quite the same textual way ) again : Look what thoughts will do Look what words will do from ...
... empty space , enthrall the empty space / packing , stuffing , jamming empty space / spinning necklaces around empty space . " Given the buildup of nuclear technology which now turns the landscape into a grid of terror rather than a ...
The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre Rob Wilson. “ empty spirit / In vacant space , " a tallying of abyss plus abyss which equals sublime perception . This sign - alteration of adjectives from full and vast to vacant and empty is for Stevens ...
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