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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... material mastery over their New World surroundings . If the sublime remains a phrase of Amer- ican ideology in " the ... material life - process , which is empirically verifiable and bound to material premises . " 22 The American sublime ...
... material of this natural sublime . He made vast- ness and wildness resonate with pious and national purposes . A sense of material and westward expansion had to be spiritually rat- ified , and poetry remained one genre in which such ...
... material sublime as a premonitory force enabling fresh signification , " new senses in the engenderings of sense , " as in these lines from " A Duck for Dinner " in " Owl's Clover " : In an age of concentric mobs would any sphere Escape ...
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