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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... example : Robin Magowan , Richard Bridgman , Masao Miyoshi , Dan Stempel , Roy Harvey Pearce , Susan Horton , Michael Beard , Nell Altizer , Kathy Phillips , George Simson , Barry Menikoff , Robert Pinsky , Michael Stephens , Michael ...
... example , in which the American sublime both acts upon and is enacted in the language of " Self - Reliance ” or “ Circles ” —is carefully worked out in Richard Grusin , “ Revisionism and the Structure of Emersonian Ac- tion , ” American ...
... example . What- ever the vague , grandly ideological appeal of such primal sublimity , however , the purple - mountain majesty of " America , the Beautiful ” has yet to replace the grand war - mongering of " The Star - Spangled Banner ...
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