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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... a compound of sensations plus reflection upon those sensations to form both simple and complex ideas . Our idea of God's immensity or infinitude , to use the sublime example , came 108 Part 2 : Early American Precursors.
... Idea of Infinite , in our weak and narrow Thoughts , we do it primarily in respect of his Duration and Ubiquity ; and , I think , more figuratively to his Power , Wisdom , and Goodness , and other Attributes , which are properly ...
... ideas of God's existence . " 15 That is , our idea of God as a complex of " power , " " knowledge , " " good- ness , " " immensity ” and so forth , is " originally got from sensation and reflection . " As Livingston argues his own ...
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