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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... energy transformation , refiguring " the immense dew of Florida ” into an “ idea of order " and regenerating , thereby , " supreme fiction " [ s ] of purpose and de- sign by which the agent could represent / act within a technocratic ...
... Energy Department is developing " under " ( sic ) the desert wil- derness of Nevada : The technologies envision exploding a bomb , perhaps in outer space , and then channeling its phenomenal force into some kind of destructive directed ...
... energy which Robert Op- penheimer's war project had unleashed , rather than " desert music , " at wilderness test sites in Alamogordo , New Mexico . By - product of technological ingenuity and of " a kind of / hard- headed pragmatism ...
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