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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... invoked by Kant to arouse awe at the macrocosm , before the mind entered such a scene as more truly sublime in moral ... invoking the sun as " globe of fire " and the planets as agents of spiritual vastness , even a " railing Infidel ...
... invoking Derrida on limits and frames , any genuine sublime , as a trope of ecstasy , must extend inert notions of limit . To invoke Emerson again from " Circles , " " The only sin is limitation . " The poet crosses limits by ...
... invoke childlike “ ignorance , " some humble stance of naive unknowing that remains founded in a “ surplus of ... invokes images from depths of wilderness - nature , has contended of the domestic terror induced by nuclear images ...
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