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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... language , goes on churning out affirmations of " Thing Language " without any sure audience , even without an ego design or intention to will grandeur . Somehow , in a cold tone miming structural play , Spicer achieves the remoteness ...
... language in " No one listens to poetry , " Spicer's sentence " presents syntax , if not language itself , at its most tangibly oppressive , admitting no possibility of differ- ence or doubt " ( " Spicer's Language , " 181 ) . More than ...
... language had to be big , spendthrift , spread out like the dematerialized power of God's vast scenery : the sublime ... language , as in the language of fiat lux : " A noble simplicity of language , combined with these traits , often ...
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