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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... grand style — a gnarled sublimity " packed with myth and literary allusion . " Be- yond the Alps " ( which opens Life Studies ) mock - accepts such a pious stance equating the mind and grand landscape , compounded as it was of natural ...
... grand style ” appro- priate to such material was achieved , as he argues in Democratic Vistas ( 1871 ) , not through mechanisms of art ( as in Poe's language- purified sublime ) but through achieving states of elevation in the poet ...
... grand style and grand self , immune to beauty or elegance : " To take expression , to incarnate , to endow a literature with grand and archetypal models - to fill with pride and love the utmost capacity , and to achieve spiritual ...
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