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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... human agents . Such communities must somehow find a language with which to contend against the dialectical force of Mutual As- sured Destruction [ MAD ] and the anti - archival threat that “ all pol- itics and all culture will cease ...
... human agent remains the site of history , discourse , archive of past and future , maker of the Longinian affect if ... human grandeur has been stored in traces of sublime textuality . Terror without end or capable structuring reduces ...
... human subjects : " Last is the thumb . " Uba's poem serves as parodic image of the discursive dehumanization from which even awe and terror have been banished , transformed into mere signals of mathematical numbness like the ...
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