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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... literary text , takes it out of what it literally says and gives it another dimension , renders it more than ' literary . ' " 1 But this practice has not been explained ge- nerically , in terms of historical development , as a discourse ...
... literary genre does this ( implicitly ) by foregrounding the concrete mediations between the individual literary text and the social sub- text the poem assumes — and transforms — as a precondition of its own existence . As Fredric ...
... literary meta- phors and mirror - stage scenario taken from Lacan's Imaginary Or- der suggest , argue the prior and literary ( sign - based ) nature of the sublime genre . Liberating forbidden or even illicit forces ruled out by ...
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