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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... feelings of transport can be generated from a New World setting . God , we would have to conclude , is his ultimate source of awe , an amplitude of feeling he constructs ( as God - drenched ego ) in " philosophic sol- itude " by ...
... Feeling , " ( 1976 ) , which does the same for the skyscrapers of modern New York City , importing sublime feeling from a rural to an urban context , making even advertisements of Capital's details ( whiskey signs ) glow with the ...
... feeling of a momentary checking of the vital powers and a consequent stronger outflow of them " : 24 " Sub- limity , therefore , does not reside in anything of nature , but only in our mind , in so far as we are conscious that we are ...
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