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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... Rapt were my senses at this delectable view . ( 204 ) Bradstreet is moved ( " rapt were my senses " ) by the autumnal maj- esty of nature to mimic some visual - aural majesty in her own style . She urges her discourse of rapture towards ...
... Rapt with delight of their delicious Aiers ? 26 Bradstreet's reworked and reworded sublimity keeps the elm and oak and shade of rapt contemplation , wherein a lyric nightingale ( unknown to the New England landscape , as realist critics ...
... rapt to an ecstasy : ... 28 While not exactly a " tenth muse " surpassing European modes of textual sublimity , Bradstreet does help to install a muse of subli- mated sublimity ( " which high sublimed my mean born phantasy " ) next to ...
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