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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... lyric of self - intuition with traces of otherness . Within this discourse of lyric vocation , the representation of American vastness becomes representative not of the Over - Soul nor of the political contexts underwriting such ...
... lyric ego willing and com- manding private possession . Whitman proclaimed in the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass that the American poet's " spirit responds to his country's spirit ... [ and ] incarnates its geography and natural life ...
... lyric of quiet rapture and pensive praise . Like Bradstreet , the American poet often retreats to a solitary grotto to evoke , but really to self- create , a vocational sense of sacred presence and her or his own elected power . Like ...
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