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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... exalt , enlarge , and ennoble its powers . Nothing is narrow , nothing is confined . All is height , all is expansion ... Exalted into self - hyperbole by this Bryant - like sublime , Whitman goes beyond such domestications to invent a ...
... exalted . ' Paul Valéry , whose work on the " elevation of aesthetics " Stevens later wrote canny prefaces for , theorized that the poet was a citizen who , through transport , undergoes " a hidden transformation " from everyday boredom ...
... exalted ” or “ high - thinking " the tone of American poetry might get , Robert Frost argued [ c . Jan. 1918 , Amherst ] that it should abide “ within the colloquial ” : “ All writing , I don't care how exalted , how lyrical , or how ...
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