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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The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre Rob Wilson. ful book - length poem , the liberal - minded Livingston presented the ... poem's early popularity . For if his lyric records , as Shuffelton claims , " less a defense of private life than a ...
... poem from the 1678 edition of Several Poems that Livingston echoes blatantly enough to suggest that he knew it , as did Edward Taylor ( 1644–1729 ) in rural Massachusetts . Shuffelton laments that our century has as- sured the obscure ...
... poem itself becomes the " cure " of false sublimities , even of the prior fictions of Stevens's own imagery ( " The sounds of the guitar / Were not and are not . Absurd " ) ( Palm , 362 ) . The poem effects the cure of Stevens's own ...
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