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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... mode of Weiskel , Bloom , and Hertz — is to dehistoricize its implied work- ings ; that is , to subject the agents and contexts of the sublime to the eternal return of the same Western plot : Daddy , Mommy , and Me in poetic disguise as ...
... mode , as humilitas gave way to a divinely sanctioned sublim- itas , anywhere on earth . " Just registering such poetic moments of " feeling knowledge " ( sublime transport ) in poetic " contemplations " or prosaic " medi- tations ...
... mode of Edward Taylor , Wharton wonders , “ Or is it , as some have suggested , a mirror of the change in Puritan sensibility toward eighteenth - century sentimentality , latitudinarianism , and rationalism " ( 11 ) ? My claim is that ...
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