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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... rapture before that British " rex " who had already , in quite worldly terms , invalidated the ( very sexist ) claim that “ our sex is void of reason " and incapable of such precedent - making grandeur : Although , great Queen , thou ...
... rapture and love , " just as long as we con- tinue to uphold / The principle of private property " : It's rapture that counts , and what little There is of it is seldom aboveboard , That's its nature , What we take our cue from . It ...
... rapture : “ His mind is trans- ported with a kind of rapture , and inspired with a certain oratoric fury , as if the oratour together with his words had breathed his soul and spirit into those that hear him " with a controlling power ...
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