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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... prior power must give way to this Eura- merican self's identification with some prior ground of surplus significance . Nature is never just " nature , " but some arena of dis- / cursive augmentation . Emptiness ( immensity ) is troped ...
... prior to such homemade rhetoric . If prior sublimes get outmoded , and have to be abandoned or outdone , the ground of such self- elective power lingers in the landscape and language , so the sublime assumes , as the archive of grand ...
... prior , less uneasily logocentric poets such as Emerson and Whitman . Decreating the American Sublime The spirit of the sublime - American or otherwise - can only exist for Stevens through countermovements of the spirit which negate ...
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