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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... Nuclear Age , " " The most urgent tasks fac- ing writers today are to communicate our common danger and to invent a vocabulary of response . " 5 If such an eschatological awareness of nuclear energy deployed in " some thermonuclear ...
... nuclear fires we have invented , that nuclear winter which threatens all flowers , empires , and all springs . As Williams best intuited in his own imagery : " The bomb puts an end to all that . " Caught between a stance of pious ...
... Nuclear Age , " in Writing in a Nuclear Age , ed . Jim Schley ( Hanover , N.H .: University Press of New England , 1984 ) : 223. On deconstructive paradoxes per- vading the rhetorical overkill of nuclear force , as historically dissem ...
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