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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... limits of these inherited terms and forms into more original appli- cations : " The poet must do precisely what is done by the mathe- matician , who takes up his science where his predecessors have left it , and pushes its limits as ...
... limit . To invoke Emerson again from " Circles , " " The only sin is limitation . " The poet crosses limits by representing , or claiming to represent , a moment of con- sciousness which can disclose higher power in no more and no less ...
... limit ' [ " the poetic sublime " ] , where we seek to push against limits imposed by conventions of syntax , meaning , and genre , " ( Stephen . A. Tyler , " Post - Modern Ethnography : From Document of the Occult to Occult Document ...
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