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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... original appli- cations : " The poet must do precisely what is done by the mathe- matician , who takes up his science where his predecessors have left it , and pushes its limits as much farther , and makes as many new applications of ...
... original applications and terrain : " He must found himself on the excellence already attained in his art , and if , in addition to this , he delights us with new modes of sublimity , of beauty , and of human emotion , he deserves the ...
... original phrasing or tonal accent : that passionate utterance growing out of sublime feeling yet tapping into vernacular language that we denominate as rhetori- cally sublime . Walt Whitman's " Song of Myself " enacts such a wild image ...
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