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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... exist for Stevens in a subtle decreation ( “ differ- ence " ) of adjectives from the infinite to the finite and near . The American sublime must come down to " the nothing that is , " the mutuality of empty spirit in vacant space.17 A ...
... exist through overbelieving acts of rapt consciousness elevating not mountains and oceans with the " golden ointment " of Hoon or the " metaphysical metaphor " of mountain - minded Chocorua , but consecrating small , domestic items as ...
... exist I saw Hiroshima did not exist . " 55 Fleeing along this road from Hiroshima , as we all are , a Japanese soldier cannot leave behind him these speechless fragments , these burning images of pine trees and fallen power lines , and ...
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