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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... imagination as a means to grace , natural space can function , in the subjective mind , as the locus of religious conversion : " For it is the observation of space as limitless and the experience of time as endless that give us the sen ...
... imagination " to transport , this rapture remains pious and pure , moral at its core , mildly Kantian : " There is ... imaginative , that our thoughts will be clearer , fresher , and more ethereal , as our sky , -our understanding more ...
... Imagination , ed . U. C. Knoepflmacher and G. B. Tennyson ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ of California Press , 1977 ) : 95-112 . The " Romantic sublime " of Emerson , Thoreau , and Whitman gets broadly refigured in the visionary ...
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