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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... production . Can a cultural community distinguish itself or long survive without positing such a set of self - enabling fictions ? How does one stand to behold the American sublime , except as a function of 13 Introduction.
... positing and , later , pluralizing the American sublime as a poetic genre should become clear from the argument and examples of this book . What I mean by the term genealogy in my subtitle was succinctly captured by its foremost ...
... positing a wild art destabilizing and decreating normative productions of " re- ality . " This language - game perspective on the sublime , driven as it is by " the incommensurability of reality to concept " and of social material to ...
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