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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... ( hypsos ) emanated not from any artifice of fantastic image or purification into symbol as in Poe ; but from energies and slangs rooted in the libidinous personality . The energy of sublime impression carried over into the shape of each ...
... Hypsos , the sublime held out a way for Romantic poets to represent the death of the individual mind yet to prefigure , in an affective calculus of awe and terror , the ego's absorption into some vast ontological ground . Only the ...
... ( hypsos ) of the sublime . This sublime force of energy released in numinous dread is precisely what General Farrell mis- labels ( in his awe - stricken government report ) the " beauty the great poets dream about but describe most ...
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