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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... less tellingly speaks through earlier and minor poets as their suprapersonal de- sign to elevate nature into commodity and grand idea as well as to convert any sense of subjective powerlessness into a shared convic- tion of " the rapted ...
... less as a private trope and more as a social site wherein poets render the " totality ” of the American landscape / environment representable — or at least symbolically less opaque— to a collectivity which is working to engender a ...
... less raptly inflected and garrison- ridden wilds of Canada or conquistadorial South America , Myra Jeh- len captures the conversionary narrative underwriting the American sublime in these terms , suggestive of ever - rebeginning poets ...
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